Christina Aguilera Quotes & Sayings

I'm sorry for blaming you for everything I just couldn't do, and I've hurt myself by hurting you. — Christina Aguilera

Red lips and fragrance always top off an outfit for me. — Christina Aguilera

I turned to music originally because of my past and needing a release or an outlet to get out anger or frustration or hurt. — Christina Aguilera

Sometimes magazines will take artist's creative choices too literally; they assume that I actually live the way I do in music videos. For example: the whole "Dirty" thing. Do you think I wear chaps to the grocery store? — Christina Aguilera

I am a woman who has my extreme vulnerable side and my baggage - and at times I feel extremely weak. — Christina Aguilera

Just the whole concept of burlesque, I've always been fascinated with it. I've always collected so many books about burlesque. — Christina Aguilera

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. — Christina Aguilera

I just kick off my shoes, walk around barefoot, I don't care if my feet get dirty. — Christina Aguilera

The roughest roads often lead to the top. — Christina Aguilera

Fashion is a lifestyle, it's a choice,it's a freedom of expression.You have to live it, you have to love it. You have to breathe it. Life's all about love and glamour. — Christina Aguilera

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. — Christina Aguilera

Don't let anything morph you or push you around or have you be something you're not. — Christina Aguilera

It's important to recognize your own self-destructive behavior and be honest about it. You're only hurting yourself or losing out on your truth and happiness. I'm not afraid to face my own personal stuff. It's so important to dig it up and figure it out and move on. — Christina Aguilera

Bruises fade father, but the pain remains the same. And I still remember how you kept me so afraid. — Christina Aguilera

Britney's a really cool girl, We were really close back when we were on the Mickey Mouse Club, and even watching her in interviews I find myself missing her lately. I'm really proud of her, how far she's come and what she's been able to accomplish. And to keep it together: It's so crazy out on the road. I gotta give her credit for not just going berserk and letting everybody get to her. I just passed on my number to her through somebody. It's good to have friends in the business who know what you're going through. — Christina Aguilera

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. — Christina Aguilera

I like my body when I have curves. We all come indifferent shapes and sizes, and this is something to celebrate. — Christina Aguilera

I always wanted to have my own album recorded and released before I graduated high school. — Christina Aguilera

I wanna say thank you cause: Makes me that much stronger, makes me work a little bit harder. makes me that much wiser. so thanks for making me a fighter! — Christina Aguilera

In a world where I have to hide my heart and what I believe in. But somehow I will show the world what's inside. — Christina Aguilera

If I was having a bad day, or if something was really getting me down
boy troubles, whatever
I wanted to go out and get a new piercing. It was definitely a release for me. Something that made me feel a little more strong or empowered. Because it was something that had to do with me and no one else. — Christina Aguilera

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

When I try to describe how I feel when you hold me, I get butterflies, I hear lullabies, it's hard to explain
like the scent of a rose or the sound of the rain. It's too precious and too wonderful to give it a name. — Christina Aguilera

There have been a lot of roles and scripts that have come my way but nothing that really inspired me or intrigued me like when "Burlesque" showed up at my door. Just the whole concept of burlesque, I've always been fascinated with it. I've always collected so many books about burlesque. I've been intrigued by the time that it's set in, in the 20's, 30's, 40's and so I knew it was a no brainer for me to be a part of once I met with the team. — Christina Aguilera

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. — Christina Aguilera

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. — Christina Aguilera

I've always been really good with my heels. Even pregnant, I could perform in heels. — Christina Aguilera

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. — Christina Aguilera

I definitely love women. They are more attractive to the naked eye. — Christina Aguilera

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

After I had my son, Max, I knew I wanted to get involved in causes that help children. — Christina Aguilera

I've never watched an entire episode of 'American Idol'. It's too mean. — Christina Aguilera

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

When I learned how millions of children go to bed hungry, my only response was, 'What can I do to help?' — Christina Aguilera

Everybody needs that one person that takes you to the right place to see all the positives in your life. — Christina Aguilera

We have something called naked Sundays ... You have to keep marriage alive, spice it up ... We don't need to go anywhere, we're just with each other. We do everything naked. We cook naked. — Christina Aguilera

The road is a lot of work. — Christina Aguilera

Not to say that music today doesn't have heart, but it's really few and far between because technology has advanced itself so much that anybody can be a singer. Back in the day, you had to know how to sing. — Christina Aguilera

I don't need nobody tryin' to make me over
I just wanna live simple and free. — Christina Aguilera

I love red and I think it's more than just a color: It evokes an emotion. When you wear red, it makes you feel empowered and sexy. For me, sin is all about temptation and the power of seduction. Red Sin is a combination of those elements to make women feel irresistible. — Christina Aguilera

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

I'm a bit of a night owl because that's when I feel the most creative and alive. — Christina Aguilera

Whatever I do, it's my business. It's not my job to parent America. — Christina Aguilera

When I first met my husband, I needed that helping hand to take the reins and look after me. — Christina Aguilera

The roughest road often leads to the top. — Christina Aguilera

Right now I'm pretty single ... My career is my boyfriend. — Christina Aguilera

Words cut through my skin, tears roll down my chin — Christina Aguilera

I will not have my son grow up in a tension-filled home. — Christina Aguilera

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. — Christina Aguilera

People who see an unhappy, sulky pop star assume that she's an ungrateful, self-absorbed little ninny. But nobody knows what's really going on. I need to eat, I need to sleep, and sometimes those things weren't considered. It was like, "When do you think I'll have time to go to the bathroom?" That wasn't on the schedule. — Christina Aguilera

My first love was singing and I had no time for boys. — Christina Aguilera

I'm content with life, and I'm finally at that place where I feel relaxed and can really enjoy what's going on around me. — Christina Aguilera

I hate working out - I have to mentally push myself through it. I can get very whiny, saying things like, 'I can't do it!' — Christina Aguilera

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. — Christina Aguilera

I have a lot of aggression in me that needs to come out in a not-very-precise or articulate way. — Christina Aguilera

I'm not a 9-to-5 woman who has the same kind of lifestyle for years on end. I couldn't do it. — Christina Aguilera

I was brought up in a household of chaos and I never felt stable at home. — Christina Aguilera

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

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. — Christina Aguilera

That overachieving, ambitious, nobody-can-hold-me-down attitude I had, which came from a place of anger and aggression, has transformed into feeling like I will take on the world, but I will do it with an embrace, rather than with my dukes up. — Christina Aguilera

Thankfully, I have my mom and a small group of close friends who are there for me 24/7 and whom I can trust and depend on. — Christina Aguilera

For me the visual is just as important as the music. — Christina Aguilera

My elementary school days were miserable. After Star Search, the jealousy got really bad that our neighbors slashed our tires. — Christina Aguilera

I'm one that likes to collaborate. — Christina Aguilera

I find fragrance to be such a mood enhancer and definitely a seduction tool. — Christina Aguilera

I was known as the little girl with the big voice. — Christina Aguilera

I want a bad boy in public, and a pussy cat at home! — Christina Aguilera

In the end you'll see you won't stop me. — Christina Aguilera

In school that used to happen a lot: they'd get me to sing and then they'd hate me for it. — Christina Aguilera

I'm an ocean, because I'm really deep. If you search deep enough you can find rare exotic treasures. — Christina Aguilera

Nothing is ever a setback. If anything, it just motivates you for what's next. — Christina Aguilera

It's important to take time for your spouse and nurture the relationship. — Christina Aguilera

You are beautiful in every single way. Words can't bring you down. — Christina Aguilera

My fans do deserve to see me back out on the road. — Christina Aguilera

I'm addicted to your allure and I'm fiending for a cure. — Christina Aguilera

I'm a risk taker and i've always been like that that, especially when it comes to fashion — Christina Aguilera

When my parents fought, I'd run up to my room, put on The Sound of Music, open the window and sing out. My voice was my escape. I saw it as a way out. — Christina Aguilera

Toward the end of my pregnancy, I felt really big - I gained about 40 pounds, which is a lot for my size. — Christina Aguilera

He's the one guy I can credit for making me think about marriage in a whole new light, because every guy I've had in my life has either lied or cheated me financially or business-wise, or taken advantaged of me. — Christina Aguilera

It's a big responsibility to help someone express themselves as an artist. — Christina Aguilera

In order to effect great change, we need to look at how we can help those in our own communities as well as globally. — Christina Aguilera

I just get really bored with sticking to the norm and having the proper conservative image. That's just so not me. — Christina Aguilera

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. — Christina Aguilera

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. — Christina Aguilera

I do not intend to tip-toe through life, but to arrive safely at death. — Christina Aguilera

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. — Christina Aguilera

Why must we all conceal
What we think, how we feel?
Must there be a secret me
I'm forced to hide?
I won't pretend that I'm
Someone else for all time
When will my reflection show
Who I am inside? — Christina Aguilera

The artists I look up to are the ones who push their own limits. — Christina Aguilera

I feel so fortunate. — Christina Aguilera

I talk openly about my past and what I've gone through - abuse being something that was very real in my household, and a lot of chaos growing up as a child. I think that I naturally just gravitated towards music that I could really feel on a deep level - and that meant sadness. I was able to connect with that at a really young age. — Christina Aguilera

Being a mom changes your life. It actually has made me become more comfortable in my own skin and my own body because it's such a growth and a learning lesson. — Christina Aguilera

I was very pushed to look a certain way and act a certain way, and it wasn't me, but I played by their rules to get my foot in the door. — Christina Aguilera

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

Why is a woman's sexuality always under so much scrutiny? Why can't she do exactly what she please without being called a million things? — Christina Aguilera

I have six-year-old fans that weren't even around for 'Genie in a Bottle' or even 'Fighter.' — Christina Aguilera

There's nothing more dangerous than a boy with charm. — Christina Aguilera

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. — Christina Aguilera

I got along better with the guys than with the girls. Only two girls came up to talk to me. Later I found out they were telling their boyfriends, 'If you talk to her, I'll kill you.' It's always rough with that high school thing. — Christina Aguilera

I don't think I could ever really be with a woman because that's a lot of ... Yeah, there's a lot of estrogen and I'm a lot to deal with when it's that time of the month, so I can't imagine it times two. — Christina Aguilera

To the sky, I rise / Spread my wings, and fly / I leave the past behind / And say goodbye to the scared child inside / I sing for freedom, and for love / I look at my reflection / Embrace the woman I've become / The unbreakable lotus in me / I now set free — Christina Aguilera