Best 20 quotes of Jenni Rivera on MyQuotes

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

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.

I made a living out of singing Mexican music.

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 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.

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

Malandrinas' means 'bad girls,' but not bad in a negative way. I wrote it in homage to my female fans.

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.

My ass is big because a lot of people have to kiss it.

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.

My mother never let on that anything was wrong. She kept her chin up and acted as if everything were just fine. So we did too.

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

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

The key to success in life is getting up early.

Usually, when a young girl is pregnant, she drops out of school and concentrates on being a mother. I thought thats 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.

Whenever I took a step forward, it seemed as though life was pushing me five steps back.

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.

When somebody elses happiness makes you happy, it means you are a person with a big heart.

I vowed that I would never tell anyone of my shame. They say that when you kept a secret, it eats you up inside, but I felt it was better that way. I wanted to appear strong in front of my children and my family. I didn't want anybody to know. And I would maintain my persona as Jenni, the Rivera Rebel who had never lost a fight. But deep down inside I knew I had lost a piece of myself that I would never recover. My soul had been shattered, but to the outside world I did just as I had been taught since I was a little girl; I kept my head up and continued forward. It is, after all, the Rivera way.

We never told on each other. That was an unspoken rule.