Meshell Ndegeocello Quotes

I very much dislike being interviewed by the kind of journalist who tries to dig into your private life.

My career is an open book, but my life is not.

I think if you do a lot of interviews, you're laying yourself open. If you put yourself out, accept every invitation to every premiere, then you can't really complain when people knock on your front door and photograph you in the street.

I'm quite shy, so I hate seeing my private life splashed over the papers.

All this focus on my private life is the most unappealing aspect of being an actor. I don't like it, but it goes with the territory, and I have to put up with it. I certainly don't set out to attract attention.

Once you expose your private life, if you give one little bit, the floodgates are open and everyone's got a free range for you.

I wish we could go back to the time when the private lives of our public figures were relevant only if they directly affected their public responsibilities.

I don't want three million people digesting my private life over their cornflakes.

I am amazed about how everyone wants to know about my love life. They whisper to me, 'Tell me the truth? Is it true?' Who cares? Because we have this job, we are to say to everybody what we do, or with whom we sleep? It's a bit absurd, but that's why everybody lies so much.

The worst thing about being famous is the invasion of your privacy.

For celebrities, privacy is utterly nonexistent. You are asked intrusive questions about your personal life. You can be photographed at any moment.

We all have a past; it's just that my past is out there for all to see.

I never feel that far away from the tabloids.

I owe 90 per cent of my life to people because I am a public figure, but 10 per cent is private to me. And I am not saying it in a defensive way. I feel my life has been made into a TV serial.

The public already knows about me more than I ever wanted it to know.

Indian celebrities have the media and fans permanently outside their homes, and that would make me really uncomfortable.

It's a funny thing because I don't want to wish away my privacy. Do I want 'Terminator Genisys' to explode? Absolutely. Do I want to take my career to the next level? Absolutely? You have to trade some things for that. It's all about how you conduct yourself and what you make of the experience.

When I started off many years ago, I made a determination that there were certain roles I didn't want to play.

Diana and I had a very good relationship with no personal problems. The only problem we did have was with the media, and the only place we could have any real privacy was at Kensington Palace, as they could not get to us there.

It bugs me that people think my songs are personal because it means I have to explain myself all the time.

Being a public person doesn't necessarily mean you're a piece of meat for everybody.

Looking at the Obamas, they have a lot to manage with their children and having Michelle go out and have everybody comment on what she was wearing, what it means. I think you have to create a pretty large private world to live in.

I really hate people who feel their private lives should be paraded, and there are magazines like 'Hello!,' 'OK' and 'Bella' totally devoted to this.

For most of my life, I deliberately led a private life in the public eye.

It is hard to manage a personal life when everything you do is amplified in the public media.