Quotes from Christina Aguilera

I don't see anything wrong with being comfortable with my own skin.

I am Ecuadorian but people felt so safe passing me off as a skinny, blue-eyed white girl.

I'm a smart girl. There are decisions that I make for reasons, and the most important thing is that my son is happy and he always will be. He's surrounded by love.

The real beauty - inside, it comes from the heart, where love lives. If not, even the most common facial features can not hide the emptiness, which eventually pushes people.

There was no way in hell I was going to jeopardize my baby for my show.

When I'm traveling on tour, one of my favorite things to do is to throw a baseball cap on and go to a Target. The company has always been good to me. They've got such a great creative team.

A lot of people are afraid to face themselves, especially when something goes wrong. But that's important, because if something happens within a relationship, it could be how you're allowing someone else to treat you.

When success comes, people can try to trick you or take advantage of you.

I love the old Hollywood glam look: platinum blonde hair, the perfect red lip. It's very Marilyn Monroe and shows a pure feminine beauty.

I love Tom Cruise. When Penelope Cruz is through with him, I'm next.

I really love traveling to Japan.

I went through my first big breakup, with a boyfriend who I had been with for more than two years. He had been one of my dancers, and it was my first love and his.

I love color - I'm not a beige kind of girl

I love getting my feet massaged.

I was known as the little girl with the big voice.

After all you've put me through, you would think I despise you, but in the end I want to thank you because you made me that much stronger.

Certain people want to see me solely as a pop act, but there are many different sides to Christina Aguilera besides the pop girl.

At this point of my life, I'm 32 and I feel sexier than ever because you know what you want.

I still have my eyes on the prize: I want to be that old lady onstage shaking her hips and singing her greatest hits.

Getting older, you just don't want to sing fluffy.

People don't always want to have females as leaders.

The red lips are - I don't want to call them "armor," but they're the clothes of my character, and I'm in the business of entertainment. Wearing red lipstick helps get me into that world.

Honestly, I just want to have a good time, listen to great singers and great music, and just use my instincts, as usual.

I've always been inspired even more by any naysayers to keep going for what I really want and they've almost been my inspiration many times more so than any positive people around me to conquer.