\nOn her marriage with rapper Jay-Z: “This is my first relationship. I’m very private and, of course, I don’t talk about it, but I’m very, very happy, that’s all I’ll say. We were together for a really long time before we got married; we were in no rush. We don’t have a normal relationship because of our careers. But celebrity or not, you go through the exact same things. We’re not perfect, it’s just natural for people to start rumors and try to break things up.
\nYou can try to defend it, but it\u2019s difficult when you read things and people are always asking. You have to have a very strong relationship, way stronger than people who aren\u2019t being scrutinized.”
\nOn Twitter On empowering women through music: “I didn’t write [‘If I Were a Boy’], but that song is so perfect. It’s so refreshing. It’s definitely something that will last forever. I felt like I was singing for every woman in the world. I feel like I’m an artist who says a lot of the things in my music that women want to say or need to hear.
\nFans always tell me, ‘You got me through this argument with my boyfriend,’ or, ‘Because of you I was strong enough to stick it through.'”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"