j"Don't you have to sing something stupid, like a Mariah Carey song?" -- Michelle Branch, when

j"Don't you have to sing something stupid, like a Mariah Carey song?" -- Michelle Branch, when asked how she would fare on "American Idol," in People magazine.
"I like to rock; I like to have fun; I don't necessarily like to follow the rules. Whatever that makes me, that's who I am, so whatever. It's never right to label. Why should anybody be labeled? I'm young and spontaneous, and I like to do whatever I feel like doing." -- Avril Lavigne, on http://ew.com.
"Stick to your guns, because you're not going to get all the support and encouragement you want or feel you deserve. But at the end of the day, it's yours, and you gotta want it and gotta go get it." -- Singer Kelis, on her advice to girls who aspire to be singers, on http://ym.com.