“When I started getting so many haters and closed doors, I decided to p...” — Jenni Rivera Quote

“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.”

“I made a living out of singing Mexican music.”

“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. It came accidentally.”

“My inspiration is always what I think my fans want to listen to. I often write about social problems. If I'm not going through it or I haven't gone through it, I want to make sure it touches someone. That's what I base my music on.”

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

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

“In Germany, you have a huge official memorial to the murdered Jews and then you have this artist who's been putting these stumbling blocks, these brass cobblestones, outside the houses Jews were taken away from. It's somewhat controversial and has met some resistance.”

“Lawrence Ferlinghetti had a tremendous education as an artist and also an enormous knowledge of literarture.”

“I'm an artist; I'm not going to use trigonometry.”

“I wish I was a great writer or a great journalist or a great scientist or a great artist; I'm not.”

“I've always been a cabaret-vaudeville artist - an hourlong cabaret and a floor show in a hotel - somebody like that. That's my main forte.”

“All my artist buddies make fun of me for being such a sensitive human being.”