...We're not broken just bent
And we can learn to love again...

But just because it burns doesn't mean you're gonna die. You've gotta get up and try, try, try.

My definition of freedom is knowing who you are, and then being it. No matter what anyone else is doing. And naked parties of course.

There's something about breaking up with someone-you just look hotter than you ever did before.

I don't want to live in fear. I don't want to stop fighting. I don't want to retreat to a silent corner

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 OK to suck, and move forward.

My definition of stupid is wasting your opportunity to be yourself-because I think everybody has a uniqueness and everybody's good at something.

It's about being alive and feisty and not sitting down and shutting up, even though people would like you to.

Sexy and smart are not oil and water. You don't have to dumb yourself down to be cute.

Embrace the freak that you are.

I'm learning to be brave in my beautiful mistakes.

Change the voices in your head, make them like you instead.

My dad raised me with some good advice: 'Always tell the truth. Always shoot from the hip. You might not have many friends, but you'll never have enemies, because people will always know where you're coming from.'

People are always like, Why did you and husband Carey Hart get back together? Well, we weren't done. And now we have Willow, so we'll never be done.

Raise your glass if you are wrong in all the right ways.

I'm such a control freak, and it's very hard for me to lose my inhibitions without something chemical inside me.

In my experience the best way to beat depression is to get involved in something inspiring.

I'm cool. I don't need to be skinny. I like to be strong.

For so long, I was searching for something to be proud of. But at a certain point, I realized, 'Wait, I'm doing what I want to be doing. I'm not wanting to do it; I'm doing it.' And that's awesome.

I'd rather bleed with cuts of love than live without any scars.

I think the best day will be when we no longer talk about being gay or straight... It's not a gay wedding, it's just a wedding... It's not a gay marriage, it's just a marriage.

I'm pretty confident and, at the same time, I'm pretty insecure. I'm like a walking conflict.

If I wasted my time trying to be like everybody else when I was 10 and 11, I wouldn't be me today. So if you are gonna be the future rockstars, the future somebody, whatever you wanna be then you're wasting your time trying to be somebody else, because you'll never get to you.

I'm not barbie, and I'm alright with that.

To experience the good you have to have seen the bad; plus it makes you appreciate blessings more. Tough times taught me to be a fighter.

Once you figure out what respect tastes like, it tastes better than attention. But you have to get there.

I don't try to be candy coated. I don't try to walk on eggshells. I am what I am. Love me or hate me.

True beauty is knowing who you are and what you want and never apologizing for it.

Charting your own course isn't just more necessary than ever before. It's also much easier-and much more fun.

I believe there's 31 flavors to be tasted. . . I'm just living my life. I don't want to be your kind of good.

I wish that girls embraced their power and their worth and their value in their youth, and not sell it or barter it for anything and have to buy it back later in life.

I wish for women to stop apologizing for those very things that make us women.

The problem was, I was labeled as trouble-so I was like, 'Trouble? I'll show you trouble. You want trouble, well here it is!' No matter what label they give you, the best thing you can do is prove them wrong.

I decided at 15 that I didn't want to be one of those artists that gets up and sings love songs they don't mean. I decided that I was going to be me to the fullest extent, that my songs were going to reflect relationships I've had, things I've been through, and even the stuff I'm embarrassed about.

It's very easy for me to tap into 'go f*ck yourself. Maybe that's the only way I feel powerful. I'm in the best place I've ever been in my life, and I'd say it's 80 percent happiness and 20 percent sheer confusion and fear that I'll f*ck it up somehow. I'm consumed by my emotions.

I'm feeling really grateful. I'm feeling grateful that I've been able to participate in this game for as long as I have. I'm feeling grateful that I've been able to tell my stories. I don't know that my mom and dad are that grateful, or Carey [Hart, Pink's husband], but it's been good for me. I'm grateful if I've kept one girl from feeling different or ugly or unempowered.

[Willow] was in the frank breech position, which is head up with her legs up by her head. We tried everything to turn her around. Turns out this little girl had other plans-she is my daughter, after all.

The willow is my favorite tree. I grew up near one. It's the most flexible tree in nature and nothing can break it; no wind, no elements. It can bend and withstand anything. I love that sentiment. I want that for her.

I look at Willow and she's so naughty and fiery, and I'm not going to take any of her fierceness personally-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. And that's something I want to post on every mirror in my house: 'This is not about you!'

'Sexy' doesn't have to come with the price tag of being dumb.

Accept that it's good? Are things ever good? I don't believe that exists. Long-term relationships are an everyday choice. It's harder to be in a marriage than it is to bounce from one relationship to the next. We're good because we communicate and we've grown up together, not because we don't fight.

Boys go off to war and women wait. But we go off to war, too. In fact, we do more and more and we have to deal with sh*t you guys don't wanna know about like Spanx and body awareness and being pitted against each other, constantly in competition.

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.

The whole 'sell out' word to me is such a tired, tired word.

I read all the time. I love it.

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.

I don't live in the Hollywood bubble. I never have and I never will.

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.

My mom never wanted to be a grandmom. She never wanted to be a mom, really.

My mom has always wished a daughter just like me.

I think you learn more about yourself in the context of a relationship than you can outside of it.

I don't like working with hitmakers. I don't want hits! You're not even allowed to say that word around me.

Record companies, I found out, can put out compilations without your permission.

I always wrote poetry as a teenager and it was always so dark, but it made me feel good to get it out.

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.

Women have fought so long and hard for our rights and equality, and now all our attention is put on being a size 0.

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.

Having a child is the best thing that could happen.

My stage show is raw and unpredictable.

I love the shows that are in dingy little dark clubs, smoky, no production whatsoever.

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 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.

I'm an asthmatic. I have to be on that treadmill singing to get my lungs right.

I'm never the kind of person who's sitting at home reading the charts and basing how I feel about myself or even my career on stats. I've always based it on, 'Am I doing the best that I can do?'

I was extreme...from skateboarder to hip-hopper to rave child to lead singer of a rock band--I did it all, and all at the same time.

People are always so surprised when they meet me. Firstly, that I'm 'so tiny', and secondly that I'm 'so sweet'. They seem surprised that they're not scared of me.

I change my mind so much I need two boyfriends and a girlfriend.

Cameron Diaz was so cute at the MTV Movie Awards when she pulled her skirt up and wiped her armpits.

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.

I feel like I 'get' boys. I've always been a boy's girl. Boys are easy; they just break stuff.

There's always a backlash when you challenge people's convictions and their heroes.

I was brought up to question authority, and thank God for that.

I know my strong points: I work hard, I have talent, I'm funny, and I'm a good person.

My favorite books, art pieces, films, and music, always have something jarring about them.

I've learned I'm not lying by not saying anything, so I just don't say it anymore.

The only problems I've ever had with being honest is telling people how I feel about them or saying how I feel about other people.

I'm taking my rats. Those are my friends for the tour. Thelma and Louise. They're so cute.

I've always felt like the underdog, and I'm comfortable with that label.

I want art to make me think. In order to do that, it may piss me off, or make me uncomfortable. That promotes awareness and change, or at least some discussion.

I have to speak for myself. As far as videos go - casting, the artwork, everything--I'm completely hands-on. You have to be if you want your points across.

I write from my life, my experience. I'm selfish that way.

I've always loved to prove people wrong. I want to be able to cross color lines, because in music, there really is no barrier.

I just get bored easily. As I'm sure other people do too.

I'm very involved with PETA - People for Ethical Treatment of Animals - and Greenpeace and a lot of women's shelter and clothing giveaways.

For me, there is only love and fear.

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.

Beautiful has never been my goal.

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.'

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.

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.

When I'm on tour, I'm in really good shape. When I get home, I cook, I eat, I get fat and happy.

I like feeling strong. It keeps my mental floor higher.

The aggressive side of me comes across in my music, but I'm just a sweet girl.

When you have a dark side, nothing is ever as good as it seems.

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.

I am perfectly fine, perfectly healthy and my healthy, voluptuous and crazy strong body is having some much deserved time off.

Women pay more of a price emotionally [as parents]. I watch [my husband] leave the house and he doesn't look back. He's a fantastic father but men deal with it differently. They don't take on guilt. When I'm gone for five minutes, I'm questioning everything. But how wonderful for a girl to grow up seeing her mother doing what she loves.

You can't please everyone. You just have to be able to get up in the morning and look at yourself in the mirror and like what you see.

I don't like labels at all so I believe that a woman and a girl can do anything.

When we celebrate and honor the talent and accomplishments of women, and how much women STEP UP every year, against all odds, we show the next generation of women and girls and boys and men what it means to be equal, and what it looks like to be fair.

[Willow] She thinks I'm a total dork.

Other people's parents wouldn't let me come over when I was a kid. I was the shithead. No one wanted their kid anywhere near me. I was the runaway, I was the fuck-up, I was the one that had the mouth, I was always in trouble. And now, moms are like: 'I love that my daughter loves you.' How the world turns.

There are moments where I look at [Hart] and he is the most thoughtful, logical, constant...he's like a rock. He's a good man. He's a good dad. He's just the kind of dad I thought he'd be and then some. And then I'll look at him and go: I've never liked you. There's nothing I like about you. We have nothing in common. I don't like any of the shit you like. I don't ever wanna see you again. Then two weeks later I'm like, things are going so good, you guys. Then you'll go through times when you haven't had sex in a year. Is this bed death? Is this the end of it? Do I want him? Does he want me? Monogamy is work! But you do the work and it's good again.

I started to realise that when I am the most uncomfortable and the most vulnerable and saying the most honest, shameful shit, that's what's getting to somebody else. And I'm basically having therapy and somebody else is getting something from it. That's the only thing that was meaningful to me. I didn't care about winning awards or being on the cover of magazines or people liking me. That was never what moved my needle.

But I think people like Miley [Cyrus]...I feel like people are just less inclined to be labelled now, which I really like. That's where I was always coming from. Just, leave it alone. I just wanna live my life. I don't need you to put me in a box or to figure me out or to figure out what I am. Cos I don't know yet. And I never say never...

I just didn't want to just be one thing. I didn't want to be in a box, and I knew that was putting me into a box. It was late 90s, LaFace Records, and I just wanted to do more. I wanted to scream a little bit. I couldn't forget the 4 Non Blondes in me.

I just don't believe in grudges any more. I'm too tired. I have two kids.

[Her father] His nickname was Mr Cause. He raised me on 'to thine own self be true'. Sometimes you have to stand alone for what you believe in and you have to stick up for the little guy. I'm very Rocky Balboa; I'm from Philadelphia, I have a fighter mentality.

It was really polarising, but I think ultimately whether people agree with me or not, they can never say that I've been inauthentic. I'm OK with that because that's more important to me. I don't want necessarily to be agreed with, I want to learn.

That's why I named the album Beautiful Trauma, because life is fucking traumatic. There's natural disasters at every turn and there's kids starving and there's Trump and there's all kinds of stuff going on, but there's beautiful people in the world that are having a blast and being good to each other and helping others. Because I can be dark, I try to constantly remind myself that there's more good than bad.

The reason I love Eminem is, number one, I think he's a lyrical genius, I think he's one of the best that ever did it. I think he's funny as shit. I don't think he believes in any of the shit he says. Otherwise, why would he respect a woman like me? Which he does. And I think he's one of those people that likes to take the piss out of all the shit we hold so precious and so dear. I think all of us get a little too serious at times and that's why I think it is hilarious that he says, 'You're a whore, you're a whore, this is war.'

Look, there's a part of me that's a fucker, and this is that.