Pink

My parents divorced, and I didn't have much of a daddy growing up.

I don't like working with hitmakers. I don't want hits! You're not even allowed to say that word around me.

In the late '90s, R&B was dominant in the radio, and the white kids were taking it mainstream.

Record companies, I found out, can put out compilations without your permission.

I wanted to do it my way with my career, and I had this arrogant notion that people weren't just interested in my music but me as a person. That was my bit of arrogance, I guess. That's something I learned from Madonna. I was a fan right from the first time I heard 'Holiday.'

I always wrote poetry as a teenager and it was always so dark, but it made me feel good to get it out.

I was a very defensive kid 'cause I was really sensitive underneath and didn't want people to know. So I came off as very tough and very angry.

Women have fought so long and hard for our rights and equality, and now all our attention is put on being a size 0.

There are 50 new tabloids every year, and I'm in them, and I read them, and I do stupid things.

I've always felt like the underdog, and I'm comfortable with that label.

When I'm on tour, I'm in really good shape. When I get home, I cook, I eat, I get fat and happy.

My mom took all of my behavior personally. Everything I did, she thought it was an act of rebellion against her. But it was just me being me.

Pink is what I do. Alecia is who I am. The world has taken Pink and turned it into this thing, a brand - a snarl.

Beautiful has never been my goal.

I know my strong points: I work hard, I have talent, I'm funny, and I'm a good person.

There's something about breaking up with someone - you just look hotter than you ever did before.

Having a child is the best thing that could happen.

My stage show is raw and unpredictable.

I love the shows that are in dingy little dark clubs, smoky, no production whatsoever.

I was brought up to question authority, and thank God for that.

When I first appeared, people couldn't figure out whether I was gay, straight, black, white or whatever, and I loved that. I loved the fact it scares people.

Every album, I'm worried that I'm a dork and a fraud - 'What if I can't sing anymore?' Then I stop thinking and start playing guitar, and I realize that it's okay to suck, and move forward.

I'm kind of psychotic and I like to talk about things. I'm a Virgo, too, so I like to analyze and overprocess.

I feel like I 'get' boys. I've always been a boy's girl. Boys are easy; they just break stuff.

The whole 'sell out' word to me is such a tired, tired word.

I read all the time. I love it. My fantasy would be to be locked into a library. I'd be very, very happy.

Loads of my friends are lesbians, and it really annoys me that gay people aren't allowed to get married in most parts of America. I'd go on a march for gay rights any time.

A lot of people have problems with public confrontation, but it doesn't worry me at all. I can handle myself. I know my martial arts.

I'm such a control freak, and it's very hard for me to lose my inhibitions without something chemical inside me.

Big productions, to me, are great - like, I love going to Vegas and seeing shows - but I think that sometimes it's distracting, especially when you are there to listen to the music.

Consumerism diverts us from thinking about women's rights, it stops us from thinking about Iraq, it stops us from thinking about what's going on in Africa - it stops us from thinking in general.

I don't live in the Hollywood bubble. I never have and I never will.

I'd love to have time to do my hair, honestly. I'd love to be Victoria Beckham just for one day - to look that good. But I can't.

When you have a dark side, nothing is ever as good as it seems.

My mom never wanted to be a grandmom. She never wanted to be a mom, really.

Sometimes I wish I was poetic and subtle. I write very bold and blunt and tell it like it is.

I write from my life, my experience. I'm selfish that way.

I think you learn more about yourself in the context of a relationship than you can outside of it.

I'm taking my rats. Those are my friends for the tour. Thelma and Louise. They're so cute.

I've always loved to prove people wrong. I want to be able to cross color lines, because in music, there really is no barrier.

I decided at 15 that I didn't want to be one of those artists that gets up and sings love songs they don't mean. I decided that I was going to be me to the fullest extent, that my songs were going to reflect relationships I've had, things I've been through, and even the stuff I'm embarrassed about.

I've learned I'm not lying by not saying anything, so I just don't say it anymore.

The only problems I've ever had with being honest is telling people how I feel about them or saying how I feel about other people.

I just get bored easily. As I'm sure other people do too.

For the first few years we paid all the bills first and divided what was left as salary. Sometimes that was $50 a week.

I change my mind so much I need two boyfriends and a girlfriend.

Cameron Diaz was so cute at the MTV Movie Awards when she pulled her skirt up and wiped her armpits.

I have no idea why anyone likes me! I am very polarizing. It's either absolutely love or absolutely can't-be-around-for-more-than-three-seconds.

There's always a backlash when you challenge people's convictions and their heroes.

For me, there is only love and fear.