Shania Twain

I didn't have a choice growing up but to be more insecure because others had more.

Coming from where I came from, it was unimaginable to ever be wealthy. That was just too far out of my reach.

I certainly could've gone off track many, many times in my youth.

In a way, we women take on more than we need to sometimes.

I won't lie, I've had a lot of discouraging moments in the past years, moments I wasn't sure about things and doubted myself.

I was in a very deep, dark slump, and I needed to find a way to get myself out of it. I had to force myself back out into life, back out into experiencing things.

I have arm-wrestled here and there... guys seem to want to test my strength.

I really admire artists that are willing to take a different approach and a different angle to their shows.

Sting I've seen a few times, and he really inspired me in the sense that he breaks the songs down a lot and will take a different approach. He'll take an acoustic approach to them; he'll rearrange them for the live stage.

I want romance.

I wouldn't call myself a feminist, because I think there are differences between men and women.

I find that the very things that I get criticized for, which is usually being different and just doing my own thing and just being original, is the very thing that's making me successful.