I can't get caught up in the negative because that destroys you.

The number of times I have fallen down is the number of times I have gotten up.

Being a mother by far is my favorite and most important career.

It doesn't bother me at all that some people think I am too outspoken.

Thank you for accepting me as I am, with my virtues and defects.

If I had the opportunity to speak to a young immigrant girl that just arrived to the U.S. the advice I would have for her would be: ask, speak, search; because there are opportunities out there. And, know that you aren't the only immigrant or the last to come to this country. Many that have come before you have succeeded. It is possible.

Mexican music runs through my veins. I loved it. Growing up, my father didn't allow us to listen to English music at home. That's all I heard. I had no choice.

I'm happy for the success that I've had, but I've worked so hard at it.

No one else has ever opened doors for me. I opened them myself.

When I started getting so many haters and closed doors, I decided to prove that it could be done. I was a divorced single mother of three at the time and a size 12 - not your typical model artist that labels feel work for the music industry.

Being a recording artist, selling music, selling concerts out, having a reality show, starting film; it's great, it's beautiful.

I am a woman like any other and ugly things happen to me like any other women.

I am the same as the public as my fans.

I'm just being myself. To me, that people are interested in Jenni, not necessarily the artist, but the woman... it amazes me still.

I've been recording since 1993. It was a hobby for six of those years. In 1999, I decided to do it full time and take it seriously.

Perhaps trying to move away from my problems and focus on the positive is the best I can do.

You work hard and you have expectations. So I'm living my expectations right now.

I had no choice but to work hard. I was a straight-A student, went to college, and I loved business. I never thought I was going to be a singer myself.

I realized going back and writing and explaining in details the difficulties I had lived actually became emotional again. It's like therapy but sometimes therapy can be painful. But it's part of life and part of the autobiography so I'll have to finish it sooner or later.

Usually, when a young girl is pregnant, she drops out of school and concentrates on being a mother. I thought that's what I had to do, but my counselors told me there was no way they would let me drop out. I had too much promise.