Tionne Watkins Quotes

By no means do I want to be a piece of meat for the rest of my career. It's funny when you get asked to do a talk show, and then they follow it up with requesting you take your shirt off.

I don't think I need to wear a bikini to attract the audience. I will not do that.

I enjoyed showing a bit more leg in the last few stories. It was good fun, but it can be quite sexist. But it doesn't worry me personally all that much.

I think trying too hard to be sexy is the worst thing in the world a woman can do.

I feel like some women do get away with doing these sexy shoots and looking like they're being really empowered. For me, I'd feel really uncomfortable in that situation and a bit like I was being taken advantage of.

The whole thing of sexually objectifying yourself is really demoralizing and degrading as a human being, and it's something that men have never had to do, and it's something that 'Hanna' has never had to do.

In my opinion, a woman's body is not her only asset.

Why can't we actually sing and get respected as good singers and songwriters without having our boobs and butt hanging out?

I've absolutely fought against having to be half-naked to sell a track.

We had to pose with towels wrapped around us, holding rubber rings, that sort of thing. The turning point came when a photographer asked us to get on a fur rug and crawl like cats. We said no, because it was sexist and disrespectful.

I love sensual women like Beyonce who are very empowering and sexy at the same time, but if it's not what you want to do then you have to say no.

The whole sex symbol or babe thing doesn't bother me.

Objectivity is almost a choice you make. As a burlesque performer, I didn't choose to be objectified.

I see explicit covers on magazines, and they're getting even more explicit, and it's like, Are women being empowered, or is this just what sells magazines? Are they feeling pressured, or have they really come into themselves and are saying, 'I am woman, hear me roar?'

I hope that I'm sexy in a different kind of way than I think that a lot of girls are right now. I think a lot of girls in the public eye, especially musical artists, are just kind of objectified a little bit and wearing super-skimpy outfits and leaving nothing to the imagination.

I don't really want to do topless stuff anymore.

We all must educate children at the youngest ages that private parts are private, 'no' means no, and there is only one code of honor for everyone.

Since I've been in Playboy myself in Australia, I love it, and I think it's really empowering and positive towards women, which is not a view that many women hold.

Some girls are taught to be sexy.

If you wear short skirts you get your femininity back.

I don't take my clothes off in my videos.

I hate girls who complain, 'Oh, guys are looking at me!' But I love it when guys check me out. It just feels great.

They say a lot of women would like to see me naked, but there's not a lens long enough for that.

I would say that, of course, it is wrong to objectify women. But at the same time, entertainment should not be inter-mingled with commodification.

I like having my hair and face done, but I'm not going to lose weight because someone tells me to. I make music to be a musician not to be on the cover of Playboy.