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Pink Quotes

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.

– Pink

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

– Pink

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.

– Pink

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.

– Pink

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

– Pink

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.

– Pink

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

– Pink

Sometimes I wish I was poetic and subtle. I write very bold and blunt and tell it like it is.

– Pink

You can’t move mountains by whispering at them.

– Pink

Cutting, and suicide, two very different symptoms of the same problem, are gaining on us. I personally don’t know a single person who doesn’t know at least two of these victims personally.

– Pink

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

– Pink

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

– Pink

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

– Pink

Sage is cleansing and sacred.

– Pink

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

– Pink

My stage show is raw and unpredictable.

– Pink

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.’

– Pink

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.’

– Pink

My mom has always wished me a daughter just like me.

– Pink

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

– Pink

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.

– Pink

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

– Pink

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

– Pink

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

– Pink

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

– Pink

Today, charting your own course isn’t just more necessary than ever before. It’s also much easier – and much more fun.

– Pink

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.

– Pink

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

– Pink

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.

– Pink

I’ve been asked to do ‘American Idol’ and ‘X Factor.’ I’m an Ed McMahon kind of girl. ‘Star Search?’ I’m in, all day long. It felt more authentic, and the market wasn’t oversaturated with karaoke contests.

– Pink

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