Once you figure out what respect tastes like, it tastes better than attention. But you have to get there.
— Pink
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 read all the time. I love it. My fantasy would be to be locked into a library. I'd be very, very happy.
I'm such a control freak, and it's very hard for me to lose my inhibitions without something chemical inside me.
I was brought up to question authority, and thank God for that.
For me, there is only love and fear.
My mom never wanted to be a grandmom. She never wanted to be a mom, really.
I'm very much in the trenches, and I don't live in the lap of luxury. I come from a working-class military family. We watch the news and read the paper and vote, so there's always something to be upset about. I always have a certain amount of angst in my back pocket.
When I'm on tour, I'm in really good shape. When I get home, I cook, I eat, I get fat and happy.
Record companies, I found out, can put out compilations without your permission.
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.
I live in America. I love being an American.
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.
I know my strong points: I work hard, I have talent, I'm funny, and I'm a good person.
My stage show is raw and unpredictable.
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.
I'm an asthmatic. I have to be on that treadmill singing to get my lungs right.
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.
I feel like I 'get' boys. I've always been a boy's girl. Boys are easy; they just break stuff.
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.
'Sexy' doesn't have to come with the price tag of being dumb.
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'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.
Sometimes I wish I was poetic and subtle. I write very bold and blunt and tell it like it is.
My mom has always wished me a daughter just like me.
I don't like working with hitmakers. I don't want hits! You're not even allowed to say that word around me.
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.'
Women have fought so long and hard for our rights and equality, and now all our attention is put on being a size 0.
I've always felt like the underdog, and I'm comfortable with that label.
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.
There's something about breaking up with someone - you just look hotter than you ever did before.
I love the shows that are in dingy little dark clubs, smoky, no production whatsoever.
I sing my life. It's like I'm having group therapy 350 days a year, and the people who come to the show get that, and they're there for that - whether it's to be lifted up, or to be lifted out, or just entertained or inspired, or to feel not so alone.
Gymnasts are short, stocky, muscular powerhouses.
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.
The whole 'sell out' word to me is such a tired, tired word.
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.
There's always a backlash when you challenge people's convictions and their heroes.
I don't live in the Hollywood bubble. I never have and I never will.
When you have a dark side, nothing is ever as good as it seems.
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.
In the late '90s, R&B was dominant in the radio, and the white kids were taking it mainstream.
I always wrote poetry as a teenager and it was always so dark, but it made me feel good to get it out.
There are 50 new tabloids every year, and I'm in them, and I read them, and I do stupid things.
My parents divorced, and I didn't have much of a daddy growing up.
Beautiful has never been my goal.
Having a child is the best thing that could happen.
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.
I like feeling strong. It keeps my mental floor higher.
