Christina Aguilera Quotes

"I love doing normal things - movies, shopping, going out with friends, writing, reading, taking hot bubble baths - that's a big one for relaxation. I also love to go to art and history museums."

"I'm always nervous before I go on stage, [but] once I'm out there everything is great and it's my favorite place to be."

"My parent's divorce and hard times at school, all those things combined to mold me, to make me grow up quicker. And it gave me the drive to pursue my dreams that I wouldn't necessarily have had otherwise."

"It's definitely a dream come true to be recognized and to be able to sign autographs. But, it's also a lot of hard work and can be draining. If you don't know already, you will quickly learn who your real friends are."

"I don't want to be just a straight pop singer. I'm a vocalist and that's what I want to be seen as in the long run."

"It's been quite a roller coaster ride, but I've grown and learned a lot about myself...The greatest thing is being able to interact with fans and touch people's lives..."

"I'm not really religious but very spiritual. I give money to this company that manufactures hearing aids on a regular basis. More people should really hear me sing. I have a gift from God."

"I'm an ocean, because I'm really deep. If you search deep enough you can find rare exotic treasures (gallstones)."

"That would just make me one more person pushing them (her fans) to feel like they have to be something they're not."

"I'm not just another bimbo. I've got a brain and a heart. And I'm not going to let my body distract people from that fact."

"Actually being 18 does put even more pressure on you if you want to be taken seriously as an artist, because you have to be on top of what you want to say, how you want to say it, what you want your points to be and how to get them across. You have to be way sharper than anybody else because people expect you to be this bubble-gum airhead, like a dipsy young girl who doesn't know what she's talking about."

"I think society has created it's own image of what is the perfect girl, like there's a certain body type that's the right thing for girls to look like. Somehow, young girls are brought up to believe that."

"It's okay to be confident and have opinions and to go out there and be something like a firefighter. As a girl, it's really important to remind yourself of that."

"One part of why I wanted fame so bad was to use it to spread the word about domestic violence and child abuse. It was something that I had been exposed to, and had experienced on a certain level. When my schedule clears, I'd like to go to schools and talk to kids, maybe share my experiences."

"It's too easy to give in to peer pressure, to listen too much to the male's opinion. I receive letters from fans writing about certain abusive situations that they are in, and that is why I want to reach out."

"I love this polar bear! I'm happy to be able to help preserve the special gifts that animals give by joining Stars in the Wild and their commitment to ensuring the survival of the planet's greatest natural resource."

Christina, on Fred Durst (Limp Bizkit): "Fred, man, how dumb are you if you're trying to get with somebody and then you're going to appear in a video that flat-out disses her. Fred and I were actually being cool with each other. He took me out one time and bought me a milkshake. After hearing rumors... I was like, 'Something is up, he is being shady'. He flat-out told me before the video came out he wasn't in it."