Trust is not very easy for me at all. I want to be a trusting person, but I've been bruised so many times - not to sound woe-is-me about my life.

All my life, people have been underestimating me.

When you love someone so deeply they become your life, it's easy to succumb overwhelming fears inside. Blindly I imagined I could keep you under a glass. Now I understand to hold you I must open my hand and watch you rise.

We have to go through certain things in order to appreciate life and learn lessons, I'm just in a really good, comfortable, happy place.

I know I can be diva-ish sometimes, but I have to be in control. The nature of my life, the nature of what I do, is divadom, it really is.

If critics have problems with my personal life, it's their problem. Anybody with half a brain would realize that it's the charts that count.