Christina Aguilera People Quotations

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.

I think that the best way you can get honesty across in your music to connect and relate to people is to be motivated by personal emotions, stories and feelings.

All I want to do is be normal. But really, it's other people who won't let me be that way.

I want to look good when people see me.

It's been a joy to be a part of other people's journey, to be able to inspire and be a part of new singers coming up in this business.

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... for that I give thanks.

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

I'm very protective of how much I let people see.

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.

The most vulnerable people have tough exteriors because they are very scared inside, and it's very hard for people like that - people like me - to open up. But playing it safe means you stop being open to learning. I always try to find the challenges.

The most successful people I've worked with, like the Rolling Stones - people of a different, kind of legendary caliber - have such great, warm energy.

I want to be a poet and have a chance to explore that and let people know what's really on my mind.

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

That's why I wrote 'Fighter'. I have that need in me to help people. I am all about the underdog.

We take food for granted, but it isn't a luxury for many people.

People take sex far too seriously.

I don't see makeup as a defense. I see it as a creative outlet. I am a woman who has my extreme vulnerable side and my baggage--and at times I feel extremely weak. And who's to say a little mascara doesn't make you feel more confident when you pop it on and look in the mirror? It helps, especially in my position, where I have people waiting down the street to take pictures of me so they can evaluate and criticize every little flaw on my face.

People betrayed me and I had a really hard time. That, along with what I'd been through with my family and my father and hard times at school meant I was knocked down. It was too much and I felt I'd been through the wringer - I was like a punchbag. I think talking to people is important and my family have helped me through it. I'd definitely be open to going to a therapist. I went when I was younger. But making this record ('Stripped') has been therapeutic. It's a tough record, it's personal and it's made me feel vulnerable. It's honest. Emotionally I've laid myself bare - it's what's in my heart. I've been writing a lot of poems and I wanted to disappear from the public eye and live life for a minute. I didn't want to play it safe.”

I enjoy real people, down-to-earth people who are true to themselves and honest to your face - good or bad.

Some people are only alive because it is illegal to kill.

I think it's a given that people know what I can do vocally.

People expect me to cry, but I always laugh when things go wrong.

Some people are afraid of change and [feel] that getting older is a bad thing, but I really love maturing and gaining wisdom, and the experience of being pregnant and having a child and seeing what a woman's body can do is amazing.

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