ChristinaMultimedia Presents: Christina Statistics

'Well, this was the year that two young artists, Christina Aguilera and Justin Timberlake, solidified their careers. With Stripped (RCA) and Justified (Jive), Christina and Justin grew up and became major players. In the 'Song of the Year' category the top contenders are Eminem's 'Lose Yourself' and Christina Aguilera's 'Beautiful'. I couldn't tell you which one I like better- they're both great records - but Linda Perry who Co-wrote 'Beautiful', is becoming a very important force in the music industry as a songwriter and a producer; it's great to see a woman take that kind of hold.'

'I think she's a cool little girl. They played me an old recording of her singing on Star Search. She was about 7 or 8, and she did 'Sunday Kind of Love.' I said, 'God, that little girl has really been around!' I found out her mother was an Etta James fan and was playing my stuff when Christina was small. Now I'm ready to do an album collage singing with a lot of people I like. I'm going to produce it, and she's one of the artists that I'm going to use.'

'I think Christina has what it takes to stay around a long time, she's got it all.'

'I like Christina best. I like them both but I like Christina better.' [comparing with B. Spears]

'The song is sort of about transformation, so I took that in a nature kind of way, the way nature deals with transformation. It's basically about coming from a very poisoned place to an empowerment, a place of strength.' 'She's not too preoccupied with how great she's going to look in the video, it's more about let's do a really great concept. It was a concept video and not about beauty shop.'

'You're going to see her like I don't think she's been portrayed before'

Source: Ananova

'I enjoy taking imagery that's dark and twisted and finding beauty in it, seeing something deeper than it appears on the outside.'

Source: Glamour Magazine

'I tell her how much I like the Fighter video because it embodies the French phrase jolie-laide, which literally means 'beautiful-ugly'. That's a good word. Christina's pursuit of jolie-laide meant firing the management team that made her a star at the age of 18, and by whom she had come to feel incredibly restricted.'

Source: Glamour Magazine

'My favourite thing about Christina mark II is that she's entirely disinterested in being pretty. She'd rather be striking. What other young sex symbol shares a video director with Marilyn Manson?'

Source: Glamour Magazine

'Christina has to be the most beautiful person on earth that actually has her head on straight, I think she's the only female artist out there that is going to make it! She has the voice of an angel'

'The first time Christina and I hung out, we talked on the phone for a while and she invited me down to her video shoot. Then we stopped talking and she invited me to the recording studio. I don't know if she was the girl for me. We went on a date to Swingers in LA and had milkshakes. After that we went to her friend's house. We had a nice kiss goodnight and never talked again until she wanted me to do that thing with her on MTV. I didn't want to do it, but she was crying and said they wouldn't let her perform without me. So I told her I would do her that one favor, and wouldn't you know it, I did that one favor and that bitch never talked to me again.'

'Christina is the most talented of all them- by far.' [comparing Britney Spears, Christina, Jessica Simpson and Mandy Moore]

'I like Christina Aguilera. I think she's being picked on, you know what I'm saying. Yeah. They're being hard on her. She needs somebody to protect her. I'll knock all those little punks out. Straight out. Actually, I wanna meet Christina Aguilera. Yeah.'

[In the song 'Perfect Bitch' by Fredro off Firestarr, he is naming what his Perfect girl should look like] 'The baddest bitch - like Trina - with anounce of Christina.'