Christina Aguilera Quotes

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.

For me, wrestling was an escape. It was like a way out.

in freeing myself from the romantic dream of finding another man to come along and rescue me, I learned that no one can rescue me except myself.

The greatest fear in the world is of the opinions of others. And the moment you are unafraid of the crowd you are no longer a sheep, you become a lion. A great roar arises in your heart, the roar of freedom.

You are free when you gain back yourself,” Madame Wu said. “You can be as free within these walls as you could be in the whole world. And how could you be free if, however far you wander, you still carry inside yourself the constant thought of him? See where you belong in the stream of life. Let it flow through you, cool and strong. Do not dam it with your two hands, lest he break the dam and so escape you. Let him go free, and you will be free.

So the fact that I’m me and no one else is one of my greatest assets. Emotional hurt is the price a person has to pay in order to be independent.

You must accept the fact that there is no help but self-help. I cannot tell you how to gain freedom since freedom exists within you.

Our experience over the last 20 years has shown that indeed people must themselves become their own liberators. You cannot wait for somebody else to come and rescue you.

I was brought up in a household of chaos and I never felt stable at home. At a really young age, I decided I was never going to feel helpless, I was never going to feel weak around a man, and I was never going to rely on anyone. Independence was a big, big thing for me.

Analysis gave me great freedom of emotions and fantastic confidence. I felt I had served my time as a puppet.

I love singin' in the car, it just makes me feel good.

Creativity is what helps me escape a lot of my inner demons.

None but ourselves can free our minds.

I'm free. I'm free to say what I feel.

Like I can't cry for myself so I will let this song take all of the things inside I can't let anyone else see and offer it up, as if the sound were some kind of god, and my pain is some kind of sacrifice.

Writing songs was like my ticket to the world, I think.

Singing allowed me to express myself in ways that I wouldn't be able to do otherwise.

My writing always came out of a very personal place, out of an attempt to stay sane.

Art is a way to express yourself and through that you can escape a bad situation.

When I'm singing, I'm another person. I can be really free, in the sense that I can do whatever I want.

With a goose-quill and a few sheets of paper, I mock myself of the universe. They say I am the son of a courtesan; it may be so, but I have the heart of a King. I live free, I enjoy myself, I can call myself happy.

If I'm free, it's because I'm always running.

What I like about singing is that, for me, it's a substitute for the psychiatrist's couch.

I find singing as somebody else very liberating, it just frees me up.

Resolve and thou art free.