Jessica Simpson Quotes

"I'd go to concerts and think, 'That's exactly what I want to do.'"

"I wanted to give up, but my family kept me going." - about losing a spot on "MMC" (1989) to Britney Spears and Christina Aguilera.

"I want people to fall in love with my voice before my image."

"I'm right there ready to explode... or I could go pfffffft. No one could ever hear from me again." - about how successful her future album may be.

"I have this fear of talking to people. I'm worried they won't like me. I've always had that insecurity. I tried to go up to Céline Dion at the Billboard Awards last year. She was right there, but I couldn't do it". - CosmoGIRL, February 2001

"After 9-11, I knew that I never ever wanted to be away from Nick ever for the rest of my life."

"Dumb is just not knowing. Ditzy is having the courage to ask! Ditzy is not editing yourself."

"Faith has helped me to be a strong person and stay level headed. It brings me peace. In this business you definitely need peace."

"I want to be a diva... like people-totally-respect-my-music diva, not diva like carry-my-diet-Coke-around."

"Natural beauty is really happiness with who you are. It you like who you are on the inside, that'll come through on the outside."

"Everybody from my record label to my father as my manager was like, 'Don't get married.' But when I got married my career began."

"Nick and I have gotten a lot of attention for doing a 'reality' show on television, but the ability to give a child his or her smile back is the kind of reality that really deserves the attention. We are both so happy to play a small part in the wonderful work Operation Smile does for children." - on Operation Smile.

"I think that freshness and that innocence is something that is missing from a lot of female singers. I'm certainly not denying that I'm young, but I'm not fluff."

"I'm such a sucker for sappy songs. I'm a big romantic, and I love love. I love singing about it and listening to songs about it"

On her dog Daisy: "She goes with me everywhere. It's preparing me to be a mother, I think."

"My mom was really worried I'd grow up looking strange, so every night before I went to bed, she'd pull my legs and stretch them so they'd be in proportion with the rest of my body."

"I don't really care what I'm famous for. As long as I get to do the movie roles I want to do and still make records."

"I don't want people walking out of a movie thinking I was trying to act or be some movie star. I want them to think, 'That might make me like Jessica a little bit more.'"

"You've done a nice job decorating the White House". Introducing herself to U.S. Secretary of the Interior Gale Norton in December 2004.