Lopez: "Whenever it feels uncomfortable to tell the truth, that's often the most important time to tell it."

Lopez: "I feel I want to grow as an actress and be better. I want to progress as a singer and songwriter, and produce movies and everything. So there'll be no time when I feel I've done it all."

Lopez: “I wanted to accomplish things, I had that competitive kind of spirit.”

Lopez: "When something bad happens is when you really learn. It causes self-examination, it causes you to take a look at yourself. You naturally start analyzing. It's not that you're wrong; it's that sometimes you just need to make adjustments. Change your way of thinking, change your way of doing, change your way of choosing."

Lopez: "You have to stand up and say, 'There's nothing wrong with me or my shape or who I am; you're the one with the problem!'"

Lopez: "You've gotta do things that make you happy. As women, we tend to give away a lot. We take care of a lot of people, and we can't forget to take care of ourselves."

Lopez: "I'm a hopeless romantic and passionate person when it comes to love."

Lopez: "People equate sexy with promiscuous. They think that because I'm shaped this way, I must be scandalous - like running around and bringing men into my hotel room. But it's just the opposite."

Lopez: "The bear is what we all wrestle with. Everybody has their bear in life. It's about conquering that bear and letting him go."

Lopez: “There’s only what you feel is right for you. Because that’s the person you’ve got to live with at the end of the day. Any time I’ve gone against my gut and my instinct, I’ve ended in misery.”

Lopez: "The media - they want to rush everything. They want to give their seedy opinions without knowing all the facts."

Lopez: "I can only speak for myself, and hope people hear my words and see me on television speaking for myself. And, hopefully, they'll be able to make their own judgment. And at the end of the day, I just want my work to speak for itself."

Lopez: "Beauty is only skin deep. I think what's really important is finding a balance of mind, body and spirit."

Lopez: "When I am wrong, I will learn the lesson and move on to face other challenges. For me, that's what creating your own life is. Doing your best work while being your best self."

Lopez: "You have to remember the value of your individuality - that you have something special and different to offer that nobody else can."

Lopez: "I think if you're in a committed relationship, unless you have some sort of an understanding, monogamy is something that should exist."

Lopez: "No matter where I go I know where I came from."

Lopez: "I know that being seen as a role model means taking responsibility for all my actions. I am human, and of course, sometimes I make mistakes. But I promise that when I fall, I get back up."

Lopez: "I have to work, for my soul."

Lopez: "I am a lover. And with my kids I am even softer. I realize with my son, I have to sometimes be tough, especially now when he's pushing boundaries. With my daughter, I can get a little stern with her and she pretty much will listen."

Lopez: "You get what you give. What you put into things is what you get out of them."

Lopez: "I honestly wear myself out walking around, fixing this and fixing that. Maybe that's why I like to work so much - so I can just get to that moment where I'm like, 'Whoa.' I have to be super tired and knocked out to stop!"

Lopez: "Doubt is a killer. You just have to know who you are and what you stand for."

Lopez: "And I never ask what I'm doing the next day. I don't want to know what I'm doing tomorrow. It's much too overwhelming. So I just go day by day, without knowing."

Lopez: "It's a real roller-coaster ride if you're lucky to have longevity in this business - you have to be able to ride those waves."

Lopez: "I have my own high standards for what I want in a partner and how I want to be treated. I bring a lot to the table. I'm not talking about material things but what I have to offer as a person - love and loyalty and all the things that make a good relationship."

Lopez: "I have the stardom glow."

Lopez: "I like to maintain a certain sense of fantasy in my life. I am kind of like that at home. Do I have the full hair and makeup? No. But I might have the nice dress on."

Lopez: "And I love the idea of spending the whole day in bed with my lover."

Lopez: "But from the time I was very little, it was something I would do all the time, just sing, dance and act. So it wasn't something that was fake or contrived as I got older."

Lopez: "I just think that the whole diva thing is a misrepresentation of who I am."

Lopez: "When I was young, I was just about hard work. But as I got older, I did experience anxiety, doubt, judgment, and it's so easy to lose yourself for a second."

Lopez: "You have to take care of yourself, your body, your mind, take care of your soul-be your own keeper."

Lopez: "Oh my God, my girlfriends are everything to me. They celebrate with you, they cry with you, they hold you when you need to be held. They laugh with you. They're mean with you! They're always there, and it's just a priceless thing to have."

Lopez: "The biggest insecurity I had was my singing. Even though I had sold 70 million records, there was this feeling like, I'm not good at this."

Lopez: "I love to eat everything and you pretty much can - a little piece of something fattening is not going to kill you. It's when you eat the whole box that it's going to kill you."

Lopez: "When you have children, you realise you can't plan anything. There's no Plan A, no Plan B. Life will happen and you will go with it."

Lopez: "For me, love is the never-ending question. It is confusing. It is the answer, but it is also inundated with contradictions and complications."

Lopez: "Sometimes you have to explore the darkness to get to the light and get back to who you are."

Lopez: "J. Lo is also an homage to my fans. That's what fans call me on the streets, and I like it. So giving the album this title is my way of telling them that this is for them, in appreciation of their support."

Lopez: "You mirror what the world mirrors to you."

Lopez: "I only do what my gut tells me to. I think it's smart to listen to other people's advice, but at the end of the day, you're the only one who can tell you what's right for you."

Lopez: "If you don't love yourself, you can't love anybody else. And I think as women we really forget that."

Lopez: "I've always had a huge fear of dying or becoming ill. The thing I'm most afraid of, though, is being alone, which I think a lot of performers fear. It's why we seek the limelight - so we're not alone, were adored. We're loved, so people want to be around us. The fear of being alone drives my life."

Lopez: "It's a shame to call somebody a 'diva' simply because they work harder than everybody else."

Lopez: “It’s not really even your first love that teaches you what love is. It’s your mother and your father, what you were taught as a child that life is and love is, through how your parents are with you. Those are the things that you have to go back and work on and examine, when you are having relationships and repeating patterns and going, ‘Oh, what is this happening for?’”

Lopez: "I judge people on how they smell, not how they look."

Lopez: "The truth is, everything that's happened was supposed to happen. That doesn't mean I don't look back and think, God, I wish I hadn't had to go through some of those things."

Lopez: "We don't give ourself the value and worth we deserve."

Lopez: "Things don't always turn out exactly the way you want them to be and you feel disappointed. You are not always going to be the winner. That's when you have to stop and figure out why things happened the way they did and what you can do to change them."

Lopez: "If anyone can figure out how to balance my celebrity and my dual careers in music and film, it's me. I don't feel frightened; I feel challenged."

Lopez: "When I face myself, I go, 'You have a fear of really being on your own. So you know what? That's what we're gonna do right now.'"

Lopez: "People assume I'm out there having this great life, but money doesn't erase the pain. When you're young you barrel through life, making choices without thinking of repercussions. A few years down the line, you wake up in a certain place and wonder how the hell you got there."

Lopez: "I think a lot about teaching my kids to work hard."

Lopez: "As you get older and as you experience and go through different things you realize you have to set boundaries. You have to for your life. You have to say this is OK and this is not OK. This is what I do for a living and this is my life. It's the only one I get and so I have to set boundaries."

Lopez: "There are certain people that are marked for death. I have my little list of those that treated me unfairly."

Lopez: "I always love when everybody else is really bringing their game, because it's only going to make the movie better; it just makes you work harder and they work harder and everybody is trying to get their little bit in. It's competitive in a constructive way."

Lopez: "In the end, the truth finds a way to surface even if you don't want it to."

Lopez: "I don't regret what I've been through. I've had ups and downs, super highs and some really low lows. I've been so blessed that I could never say, 'I wish this didn't happen.' It's part of who I am."

Lopez: "Once you have a lot of success, you become a target in many ways."

Lopez: "I love a long bath. I love anything creative. I love decorating. I even love just flipping through magazines and vegging out for a while. But I'm also one of those people who loves to work, so I'll sing, dance, work on my next performance, or write whomever it may be about a new idea."

Lopez: "You've got to love yourself first. You've got to be okay on your own before you can be okay with somebody else."

Lopez: "If you kiss on the first date and it's not right, then there will be no second date. Sometimes it's better to hold out and not kiss for a long time. I am a strong believer in kissing being very intimate, and the minute you kiss, the floodgates open for everything else."

Lopez: "With hard work, living a good life, you can do anything. You will be rewarded for that."

Lopez: "It's not that I didn't love myself before. Sometimes we don't realize that we are compromising ourselves. To understand that a person is not good for you, or that that person is not treating you in the right way, or that he is not doing the right thing for himself - if I stay, then I am not doing the right thing for me. I love myself enough to walk away from that now."

Lopez: "You know, maybe I was just born in the wrong time, but I love all things romantic."

Lopez: "In the past, love for me has always meant forever, and sure, you still nurse some of those fantasies, but I don't try to force it anymore. I hung on to my fairy-tale ideals for a long time. But where I am now, what I've been through, there are no rules. There are lots of ways it can turn out."

Lopez: "I think the best partner you can have is someone who makes you want to be the best form of yourself."