“We are all pink on the inside.

This just means we all bleed the same colour. The fact that people are so caught up on skin colour and class and all that stuff just scares me. We’re all the same really.

The beauty is in our differences.”

♥

CHILDHOOD – FAMILY

“When I was in seventh grade my mom caught me smoking cigarettes and punished me by making me smoke the entire carton. All it did was piss me off because I was out of cigarettes.”

“I came close to death so many times when I was younger. I’ve had guns held to my head, all kinds of stuff. There are a lot of kids out there who don’t have any goals or dreams and it’s so easy to get caught up in dangerous crimes. I mean, I’ve buried my friends. My parents did try to mould me into something but that didn’t work with me. No one could give me advice. I would be like: ‘And who are you? Kiss my entire *****. “

“I have one memory of crying my eyes out, my mum coming up the stairs and I’m like, “Mum, are you and daddy going to get a divorce?” And she came in the room and said “Oh no, honey, we’re just fighting.” But it was like that every day. It was like “***k you! Get the ***k out! We don’t ***king need you!” If I spilled the milk at the dinner table, it was run to your room and lock the door and hide, because it’s about to start.”

“When I was younger, no parents would let me eat dinner at their kid’s house. “Now they’re like: ‘I want my kid to grow up to be just like Pink.’”

“I was on tour with the Sugababes in Australia and one of them was like: ‘I really miss my mum’. I was like: ‘Oh wow! I’ve never said that before, are you okay with it, do you need some therapy?’

“I was always climbing trees, skateboarding, all kinds of things. I thought I should have been a boy for a long time, but I’m very glad I’m a girl. I can’t imagine walking around with that thing swinging between your legs.’ She laughs again, uproariously. ‘How annoying would that be?”

“Not too may people could pull the wool over my eyes. So they didn’t like me.” She pauses, and laughs defiantly “I was not liked, generally.”

Q: Do you get much time with your family?
P!nk: Yeah, at Christmas! (Laughs) It’s the only holiday I always get.

PERSONALITY.

“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!”

“Everyone has split personalities. You can be strong and vulnerable. Me? I have like 5 or 6. There are many sides to me.”

“My whole life is an adventure, I’m on a rollercoaster ride. I want to take over the world and I am going to do it.” (2004)

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

“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.”

“There’s not a lot of people out there that are as honest as I am.”

“I don’t have any prejudices”

“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.”

“I’m not perfect so I’m probably not the safest person to model after, but I don’t lie, so at least everything I do is honest.”

“I appreciate being a girl more now than ever. There’s a struggle involved in it, but it’s so rewarding when you prove to all men that you might have something up on ‘em.”

“I always wanted to be different. You don’t like people with green hair? I’m coming in here with green hair tomorrow. Girls don’t skateboard? Watch – I’m gonna be a better skateboarder than you. That was my mentality. I always felt like I had to prove something.”

“Soon as my brother told me ‘Girls can’t skate’ I picked up a skateboard and became a good skateboarder”

“I hate rules; I like to break ‘em.”

“I want what I want, when I want it, how I want it, where I want it, who I want it.”

“Sometimes I’m the nasty *****. Other times, I’m the crazy *****. I love it that I can say ***** this much (on live tv)!”

“When everyone says I have a bad attitude, I just tell them I’m misunderstood”

“‘I’m a toothless tiger, I got a big bark and no bite”

“If you’re not the party type then you wouldn’t want to stay next to me.”

“I don’t say I’m right about everything. But if God gives me the opportunity to talk to thousands and thousands of people, I’ve gotta say something important. I’m a feisty girl, you know? Long-winded, but feisty.”

“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”.

“As for the ethnic thing, I’m just pink, man. If everyone believes in this whole crayon box thing where we have to be colors, well then I should at least get to pick my own, don’t ya think?”

“I wanna have a mohawk, lots of tattoos, grow weed in my attic and teach my kids about how music used to be…” From the Jo Whiley radio 1 in November of 2002 when asked what kind of an old woman she wants to be.

“I always said I’d be a grandma who grew weed in her attic and taught her kids to roll joints”

“They said somewhere ‘the skies the limit’. They’re always trying to keep boundaries on me?”.

“I don’t think they’re ready for me yet but I came to crash the party.”

“Everybody laughs at me because I’m different. Well, I laugh at them because there all the same!”

“I like people who love what they do, and i like people who love me”

“I say the wrong things, I tell the truth, which tends to get me in trouble, and I’m a very eclectic person, so I feel that’s misunderstood, as well.” Pink said after a video shoot for “Get the Party Started.”

MUSIC.

“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.”

“I always told them, since the beginning, ‘Don’t put me in no ***king box, man. The little pop box. The little R&B box. The little white-girl, pink-hair, freak-punk, rock, R&B whatever. Music is so categorized these days, it’s hard not to get pigeonholed.”

“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.”

“Sometimes it takes a tragedy to bring us togeher – sometimes it just takes MUSIC!”

“It takes a lot of people years to turn a negative into a positive. It takes me, like, an album.”

“I’m about to make people forget about Madonna.”

“Missundaztood – I just spelt it wrong to piss off my teachers”

Beyoncé: “I love ‘Lady Marmalade’. I always try to sing the words but I can’t. It’s “Voulez-Vous Coucher … ”
Pink: “…Avec Moi.” I still don’t know what it means but it’s dirty.”

“*Album title note: I think we all feel misunderstood, and our main goal is to be appreciated for all that we are – most of the time we don’t even fully understand ourselves ~ one of lifes mysteries ~ thus the title of my album: Missundaztood!”

“Don’t Let Me Get Me is about feeling inferior, like having to live up to this image of skinny arse models and society’s definition of beautiful. I look at magazines and I’m like, ’she’s so thin, b**ch!’”

“They called me to do the song (Feel good time), because they say I am hot!” - MTV Making The Video Feel Good Time

“I’ve lost a lot of friends to different things, drugs, drunk driving, suicide. It breaks my heart. The things I write about are things that break your heart…”

LIP SYNCHING.

“No one ever has another excuse to lip-sync…” (Feb/2010)

“I hear there’s a debate over whether or not I sang live on grammies. I have never lip synched in my entire life. I’m 100% against it.” (Feb/2010)

“People want me to hate Britney; I wish her well, but on the other hand, as a musical person, I don’t get lip-syncing, either. I never will. I don’t get how you go and get that for two hours. I grew up watching Broadway, watching these singers blow your heart out of your chest. And Billy Joel f— ing killing you for three hours. That was my first concert when I was two and I remember him sweating on his piano keys. That’s what I want to see. I could never go watch miming, but more power to her. There’s room for everybody.” (June/2009)

“I think there are too many people out there taking the music business for a ride. I’d rather go on stage and sing s*** than have to mime to a track. I feel like shaking some of these girls up who have forgotten what it means to actually sing for their fans. I may swear and be boisterous and make people angry but nobody can accuse me of not being true to the fans.” (July/2004)

“Lip synching is corny. What’s the point? I came to play. I came to sing. Hand me a microphone. Listen up!”

HER DOGS.

“I always wanted a dog named F****r and also when I got him, he was so little and so cute, he was a really cute little f****r. I’ll take him to the beach and I’ll yell ‘F****r!’, and 50 people’s heads will turn, I’ll be like, ‘not you, not you, not you – him’, and he’ll come running.”

“Do yo wanna see what 44 hundred dollard can do to a dog?? Sit… Sit… F@cker, SIT!! …SIT!!! …D’Oh forget it! He knows he’s on the camera.”

RELATIONSHIPS.

(2000) “I’ve never been able to write a love song, because I’ve never been in love. So I just write about my experiences. I thought I was in love and then I wrote the song “There You Go” so you probably know how it went. (Laughs)”

“I can’t get up there and be like, ‘Don’t leave me. I’ll be nothing,’” *mimicking some helpless girl in despair* “Because if you leave me, I’ll be fine… I believe girls need to realize that they don’t need to depend on people.”

“It was easier (touring) for me when I wasn’t in a relationship,” she says wistfully, “because I didn’t have anyone to miss, I could focus completely on what I was doing. I had no real reason to go home. Then I got a dog and a boyfriend. So I have two pets to look after and I can’t do it.”

SEXUALITY.

Q: Have you ever been with a woman?
When I was 13, I kissed a girl I had a big crush on. It was fun. I was on ecstasy. She left me for my brother. I’ve stayed away from girls ever since.

Q: Have you had sex with a girl?
‘No, I haven’t,’ she says calmly.
Q: Why do you think you appeal to gay girls?
‘Let me ask a couple,’ she says, shouting out to her friend and assistant Laura Wilson, ‘What’s my appeal to gay girls?’
Laughing, she relays the answer down the phone. ‘Because I’m strong, assertive, cool, hot. And Laura likes my nipples.’

(2003) “Women to me are the sexiest creatures on the Earth. We have it. The way we carry ourselves, the way we dress, our hair, our curves, our bodies, our minds, everything. We are the sexiest things. When you look at it like that, well, why not?”

(2006) “Most of my friends are lesbians. 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 scared people.”

(2009) “Just read that I’m bisexual. So 1991. Good thing people write articles about me so I can get my facts straight. Can’t wait for the day when people stop talking about sexual preference or that a woman is a CEO and actually start making the world liveable.”

WOMEN’S RIGHTS

“Lots of people don’t think women are smart enough, strong enough or independent enough to make it. You just have to prove yourself!”

“I just don’t like the whole woman-against-woman thing. We’re constantly being compared. Yes, we both do music; yes, we’re both female; and yes, we’re around the same age. But thats it. I write and produce all my material. I’m not the girl-next-door-type – I’m the girl you don’t want to move in next door!”

Q: What effect do you think being a woman has had on your music and your career?
“I would not want to be a man, that’s for sure.”

“Women pit themselves against each other, its so petty. Big the next girl up, if she looks hot and she has boots you want ask her where she got em, dont look at her and roll your eyes flaunt her for having good style”

FAME/FANS

“I’ve fought for this career tooth and nail. I think the people around me respect me even more for it. Otherwise I might’ve ended up singing ballads that I didn’t mean, living a fraudulent lifestyle and talking about nothing.” (2004)

“I love the fact that you can just sign your name on something and it can make some peoples day!”

“I hate the word ‘fan’ firstable. I call them ‘my friends’ just cause i love my friends! They’re just like me!”

“You know I’m a star right now, I’m not supposed to be walking!”

“After a long trip to Australia, we were starving. MacDonalds was just closing, but they opened up again for us and gave us free food. I was so happy, because I used to work at a MacDonalds and I could never get free food. I used to steal it actually and go and hide in the broom cupboard to eat it”

“The best thing is being able to do what you want for a living and not having to punch somebody else’s clock. The worst thing is having to punch somebody else’s clock. [laughs] No, seriously, the worst thing is just being homesick and tired a lot. And missing your loved ones”

OTHER THINGS.

“I would win on ‘Survivor’ as long as I didn’t have to eat bugs.”

”I think I lost about 600 bucks at Blackjack. The vodka didn’t help…”

“If you buy a ***king ticket to a concert, have some ***king fun! Loosen up people!”

“If there’s a girl that’s infront of you in line and you’re trying to get to the bathroom, don’t give her an attitude, ask her if she needs help wiping. Let’s be positive people. Girl power!”

Radio 1: “You’re wearing a hat and dark glasses today and we’ve heard you were enjoying the bar last night and dancing on tables. Is this true?
Pink: “Oh my goodness that was Bibi. No that was Janice. It’s all probably true. I think I enjoyed it a little too much! They said I was dancing on tables last night, but I don’t remember that! Let’s move on before I get myself in trouble!”

“Bite my booty!”

“I like embarrassing people. Every time I have a new makeup artist working for me, I have to break them in. I take all my clothes off and just sit in the chair. “I’m ready.””

“Well, in my vocal sessions, you have to be naked or you can’t come in. If you want to be in the vocal booth, you have to be naked with me! Only six were up to it. Everybody else had to leave… It was good. I got them out of their shell.”

“I like licking people. But tongue action is also sexy, whether it’s boys with boys, boys with girls, or girls with girls.”

“I’m being a sponge right now. I’m learning how to stick furniture to ceilings”

“There’s nothing I regret taking,” she says, taking a drag on her cigarette

“OK, spare time, I don’t have spare time! But when I do, I like to play pool. I like to sleep, cuz I never do. I write a lot, that’s my medicine. Even if it doesn’t make sense, I just write it. You know, bubbles dancing across the floor, just dumb style. I have to write, at least once a day!”

About UK: “Apart from chinese food…I like the nightclubs, I like the fashion. I don’t remember the names of the clubs, nor where they are. [laughs] I love the park that my hotel is next to as well, but I don’t know where that is either!!”

“The most embarrassing thing… ah, yes, I did turn bright pink. It was at a video shoot in the morning. We were on the third day and were tired as hell. Someone from the record company said, “what can we do to make you feel better”? So, I just said, “send a naked man”. And then later during the club scene, when there were about two hundred extras around, they brought in a stripper. He was all over me and chased me around, I was soooooo embarrassed. It was horrible, a horrible experience! I was mortified, I played it off, but I was mortified. It’ll make me a lot more careful about what I ask for next time”

“Paint the world Pink!“