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For over a decade, Pink has forged an exceptional career.

The controversial star has been a regular fixture

on the world's charts since 2000.

After selling 40 million albums and 70 million singles globally,

she is indisputably

one of the best-selling musical artists of all time.

The girl from Pennsylvania who got the party started

recorded her first album at 15

and is now recognized

as one of the most daring and complex performers of the modern era.

I'm old school.

I believe in taking what you want and changing it if it's not right.

And... just having fun. Sex, drugs and rock and roll, man.

Known for her "tough girl" image,

in a world of bland performers, Pink is one of a kind.

Sorry for asking this, are you a lesbian?

Do you want me to be a lesbian?

I don't like anything that's not dangerous.

I got hog-tied in the air at about 30 feet.

Night number two.

It's fun, especially when you can scare the crap out of everyone

that's working on the tour every night.

Makes you feel good.

I hope I never grow up.

I feel like I've actually regressed.

In a lot of ways.

The outspoken star is refreshingly open and honest

in a sterile industry that is usually anything but.

Everyone's good at being diplomatic and I'm not.

I never learned that. I tend to piss off a lot of people.

Working with Pink is not just working with an artist,

it's like one of the biggest artists in the industry.

I remember her rehearsal for the Brit Awards,

her having deep words about choreography.

Pink came back and was like, "Yeah. I don't like this."

And we were like, "Oh, okay."

That freaked me out a bit.

The Brit Awards were like a day away and we were like,

"We've just had these nice rehearsals."

It's cool, 'cause we have to get it done.

She had an idea of what she wanted her piece to look like.

The choreographer and the team had to conform to that idea,

which meant we changed a lot of the show.

She's done strong stuff. She's challenged the president.

She's been quite radical in that way.

Well, my dad served in Vietnam. My brother's in the Air Force as we speak.

I don't agree with them

and the only thing I'll say is that Michael Moore is my hero.

She has got an outspoken attitude, and I greatly admire her for that.

The wild side of Pink's image

is what people like about her, what people are interested in about her.

If you speak your mind, it's telling the truth,

If people don't like it...

And no offense to...

Well, okay, offense, whatever. I don't really care.

I'm making fun of it. That's what I do.

No one else talks shit. Why shouldn't I?

Alecia Beth Moore, better known as Pink,

grew up in Doylestown, Pennsylvania.

Her mother was a nurse and her father, a Vietnam veteran.

Alecia's interest in music began at an early age.

She was born in Philadelphia in 1979.

She did gymnastics for eight years when she was younger,

and her dream was to be an Olympic gymnast,

so it's something that stayed with her.

She does gymnastics.

She did eight years of training as a gymnast,

like pulling herself around stage.

There is no denying the devastating impact

of Alecia's parents' divorce,

which occurred when she was nine years old.

They had a tempestuous relationship and divorced when she was young.

She's always battled with that.

It could be reasonably argued that Pink made her mark

by exploring, examining and then making records

based around memories of her childhood pain.

All artists, they dig deep

to find whatever it is that gives them honesty and integrity,

and if they can do that, it's gonna ring with a higher truth.

She's genuinely just trying to work some stuff through

and make art out of it, which is all artists are trying to do.

When people say you're soulful, like, your soul...

It's hard to explain, like you have to have been exper...

You have to have experienced things.

You have to have been through something

to be able to pull that from deep inside.

She did a song with her father.

She sort of described it as a healing process for her.

She's challenged herself to do something original.

It was something I told him we'd do when I was a little girl.

I like to be able to complete thoughts.

And also, my dad is a bad-ass,

and he's this tough, know-it-all...

For once, we were able to reverse roles

and I was able to give him something

and show him something he'd never done before,

and would have not been able to do had it not been for me.

So, it was creepy, kind of, 'cause it was total role reversal and...

But beautiful at the same time,

because I got to see the humble, sort of nervous side

of a man that I've looked up to my whole life.

She bought her daddy a Rolex

as soon as she got her first platinum record

because he'd had to sell his Rolex to look after her as a child.

Aw!

Yeah, so she's sweet.

Alecia earned her nickname at an early age.

When I was like eight, I went to the YMCA for camp,

and this kid I had a crush on pulled my pants down in front of everybody

in, like, an auditorium, and I had no underwear on and...

So I blushed and turned pink

and it basically followed me throughout my life.

Alecia Beth Moore's stage name is a red herring

because she's not very pink, she's not very fluffy.

She coats it in sugar but don't be fooled by the color.

She's always got the exclamation mark in her Pink, now hasn't she?

No one really calls me Alecia.

I feel like I'm in trouble when people call me Alecia.

But, I mean, I have several different nicknames.

Like 20 different nicknames.

Ali, Alex, Leach, Lecia.

What are my other nicknames?

Betty, um...

Bitch.

Head bitch.

I have a lot.

After her parents' separation, Pink moved in with her mother,

who struggled to manage her increasingly unruly daughter.

She had a lot of trouble when she was younger.

She was rebellious.

She was in bands, dark rock bands as a teenager.

A teenager pretty rebellious involving drugs

and all sorts of swearing and storming out of the house.

Pink's relationship with her mother has been awkward over the years.

Given the sort of the childhood she had with the arguing all the time,

she went into this rebellious stage and started taking drugs and partying.

I'm no better at discipline than my mom was, so...

My dogs walk all over me the same way I walked all over my mom.

It's good. It's really reassuring.

By her mid-teens, the burgeoning rebel

had gone into self-destruct mode.

The thing that makes Pink unique

is that she's pretty raw and uncheated for a pop girl.

She doesn't come schooled.

She didn't go to an academy. She didn't have any special privilege.

I think that shows through

something refreshingly unvarnished about her.

She's got that background.

She's a bit of a drug kid, isn't she? A bit of a club kid.

She was off her nut in night clubs,

but because she's got that kind of undercurrent...

she's a bit more street and genuine and a bit more honest

than a lot of her contemporaries.

It got a bit too much for her mom,

so she asked her to move in with her dad because she couldn't handle it.

She ended up moving away.

Is it true that you had to go to prison for a few days?

It was all crap. I was mostly innocent.

What was it for?

Just dumb stuff.

I never got caught after I was 18 because I knew I'd have a record.

Disorderly conduct, shoplift...

I mean, I did steal Showgirls, I'll admit to that one.

And then I took it back 'cause it sucked, but, um...

Just dumb stuff, you know?

I lived in a small town and, honestly, the police had nothing better to do

than harass kids that they didn't think

fit their picture of a wholesome young girl.

The gifts that would turn Alecia Moore

into an international star were apparent from a young age.

During her teenage years, she wrote her own music.

I always wrote poetry when I was in school.

I wrote a lot of poetry.

Poetry was my medicine

but I didn't really know how to write songs

until probably four... three or four years ago.

And then I started turning all my poetry into songs with music

and it just kind of happened, it was just... I don't know.

Cut.

Of all the hugely successful commercial pop girls over the last 15 years,

Pink was probably more involved in the songwriting process than most,

both lyrically and melodically.

Not everyone can write stuff that appeals internationally like that,

so she's very cool.

I rate her highly as a songwriter.

The things that she pushes out and what she portrays...

I see as very much from herself.

The records speak for themselves. They're autobiographical.

Everything she has to say goes into the music and into the lyrics.

I've seen her work in a recording studio.

The things I saw her do, and how involved she was,

not just in writing and singing...

I was like, "Okay, cool, she knows what she's doing."

She does write her own stuff, and music as well...

She plays a lot of instruments

to match what she writes, so that's a talent in itself.

A lot of the songs are deeply emotional and you can really feel the pain.

She has an idea that if some things, some sound, some groove,

some fill, is broken in around there, and then she tries to find it.

The word play comes across as what she thinks about.

You can hear it in her work, which is very coherent.

I'm inspired when I'm angry or I'm inspired when I'm really happy

or confused, or something like that.

It has to be an extreme emotion for me to write a song.

There was nothing mellow about Pink's teenage years.

She was unable to find focus until she made music her life.

Pink had a pretty tumultuous late 90s.

It was touch and go,

whether there would be any future, let alone a musical future.

She was off her nut in a night club

and she was asked to go and sing.

She just about got it together to sing, but the DJ,

he said, "Can you come back

but be straight when you come back, stay off the drugs?," and then she did,

and that was where she realized that she was gonna be successful.

Give credit to her for pulling herself up by the bootstraps

and getting herself together sufficiently and not dying,

instead being reborn

as a terribly successful, highly motivated woman

who would take most of the control of the future direction of her career.

What would you be doing if you weren't making music?

Hard to say, but, in reality, I don't know that I'd be here.

Does music mean that much to you?

Absolutely. It's been my escape.

By the time she was barely in her teens,

Pink was heavily into the Philadelphia club scene.

At the age of 14, she had her first job, singing back-up in a friend's rap group.

Pink was spotted by a record company executive from MCA

who asked her to audition

for a new R&B group called Basic Instinct.

Pink got the job on the spot.

Pink started performing when she was about 14

in local clubs where she lived, in Philadelphia.

She started off as a member of an R&B girl group

and that's the direction she was heading in.

They got sort of flown to Atlanta to put a record together

but it never got released.

The group went nowhere.

Nonetheless,an R&B trio named Choice

snapped Pink up as one of three female leads.

They made a demo and were immediately signed to LaFace

by the producer and music industry impresario L. A. Reid.

She got into LaFace's office with Choice, who were an R&B act.

L. A. Reid was definitely important to her career

and he got her signed in the first place and made her go solo.

It was a she-went-solo-or-it-was-over sort of thing,

so she took the choice to go solo.

When she was under the tutelage of L. A. Reid,

that was the only example of her as the pop puppet, the manipulated girl.

That was when it all started with her first album.

I'm taking over the world.

That's it, I'm taking over the world, painting the world pink.

She felt empowered

and decided to leave and do her own thing,

and she's been doing it very well ever since with no looking back.

I was in a group.

I was a lead singer of a group.

Two groups, actually, and that didn't work.

So... huh?

It did work. Everything happens for a reason.

By the age of 16, Pink was transformed

from a member of a pre-packaged, all-girl R&B trio

into a solo hit-machine.

She has never looked back.

There are few more jaw-dropping pop spectacles

than a live Pink performance.

Combining sophisticated aerobatics

with slickly choreographed dance routines,

the star has developed

one of the most spectacular shows in pop history.

As a performer, she's just one of the best

and she's gone for so many years

and brought so many differences to the table.

That's why she's so successful.

I rate her like high up there.

If you've never been to a Pink concert or seen her live,

expect the unexpected.

You have no idea what may happen next if you go, so... go, people, go!

It's always something that you can get your teeth into.

She pushes herself to the limit

and wows the entire audience.

She knows what she's doing and how she wants it.

She's an artist, she's grown, she wants to try new things.

She puts on such a show. She doesn't just stand and sing.

She's got such a presence on the stage.

That's why when we say the word "artist,"

in regard to the music artist...

They are artists, because it's not just about the music.

Electric would just be the word. Electric.

Funhouse is a hard show to top, but that's my job.

That's what I have to figure out,

whether I have to light myself on fire and shoot myself out of a cannon.

That's what I have to do. I have to figure it out.

And that's the fun part for me.

In the big-budget, high-concept touring game,

Pink has become the female pop star to beat live onstage.

Moonlighting as an aerialist and trapeze artist,

the star delivers an intoxicating blend of gymnast-trained athleticism

and slickly choreographed, breath-taking performances.

I don't know any other artist that's done this.

She is in a harness with amazing acrobatics on silks

with wires and spinning around.

She was being harnessed up and it was amazing.

She was on the stage and the seats way at the back

over the other side of the arena, up in the gods,

she said, "I'm gonna come see you,"

and she literally flew through the entire O2 arena

right to the very back, up high to those people up there

and was just waving at them.

She has the head mic on,

and she's however many feet up in the air, tumbling.

She even started from the top of the crowd

all the way through singing live

and the crowd was grabbing her left, right and center

but she didn't care, she just carried on singing.

She proceeded to spend an entire song singing,

flying around the entire arena.

It wasn't just about being a spectacle on stage.

It was still very much about the music.

One thing I like about Pink, how you can intertwine the two.

It would be impossible to represent an entire show with one song,

as it would an entire album with one single.

There's too much, it's too much.

What you won't see is the silks and the mats and the danger.

It's a lot of emotions in an hour and a half.

It's really good.

Few, if any, performers deliver better pop shows than Pink.

Her mesmerizing performances

have allowed her to rise above the competition,

attracting critical acclaim from all quarters of the media.

Pink was the biggest artist I've worked for.

There was nothing intimidating

apart from I didn't know if she'd be like snobby,

if she'd be grounded, if she would come in and high-five everyone.

I didn't know what to expect, and this was my biggest commercial job,

so I wanted to make sure that I was being professional

and not looking at her and staring.

To perform and to be accepted to work with an artist that big,

from the States,

as the very first type of big job, for me, was just through the roof.

I enjoyed every second of it.

Very surreal experience when I first got introduced.

There wasn't heaps of people surrounding her

and people on the phones and things like that.

She kind of came in, she had a hoody on, this black jacket

and I was kind of like, "Hey, it's Pink," and she was like, "Hi."

I was just like, "Okay, there she goes."

I was nervous, obviously, like everybody else.

I'm thinking, "Wow, this is a big American star,

and I'm like from a small, little town called Leeds."

Um, so, to work with her is a little bit of self-pressure,

but nothing relayed from her.

She brings a sense of the laxed vibe between you.

She'll make you feel as normal as this interview is going on.

I felt so at ease.

It just felt like, "Let's go play on stage."

Her personality is fun.

The word fun would cover just so many bases of what she is.

Umm... She makes people feel comfortable,

especially in a work environment.

As a person, like the times I've been with her,

she's been very...

...closed.

The times that we spent together,

I just get... she's a very personal person.

I think it takes a lot to get into her, or get to know her in that way.

She treats everyone the same.

Stereotypical type of thing to say,

but she really does, and so, yeah, it was a breeze.

Pink has become almost as well-known

for her campaigning activities as she has for her music.

In 2007, the compassionate singer

teamed up with the animal welfare charity

Party For Animals Worldwide.

When I started Party For Animals Worldwide,

right from the beginning, Pink was who I wanted to approach.

I knew that she was passionate about animal welfare,

so I felt that if I could reach her,

if she knew about what we were trying to do,

that she would support it.

I had absolute, unwavering belief in that.

I had no contacts in the music industry.

I asked for a backstage meet and greet at one of her concerts.

I thought that'd be a good opportunity to just try and engage with her,

get her to sign a T-shirt, and to my disbelief and sheer excitement,

I received a positive response

and was able to meet her very briefly backstage.

She's such a fiery and strong character, and when I met her backstage,

I was a little bit star-struck

and probably didn't deal with it very well.

I didn't get myself across entirely how I wanted to

because she was an idol of mine.

I thought I'd really ruined my chance,

but luckily I had written down my request

and a little bit more about the organization

and I handed her a letter.

I didn't think she would read it.

I thought she would just give it to her assistant

or put it to one side and that would be it.

Umm... However, I was wrong. She obviously did read it.

The next day, I received an email

saying she was interested in the organization

and you can imagine, I was absolutely blown away.

It was a dream come true. I wanted someone to pinch me.

A few days later, she came down

and I showed her around the monkey sanctuary.

She had Carey with her and it was very intimate.

We didn't tell the media or anything, and we were closed at the time,

so there was no hassle for her and she was great.

When she very first arrived, she was walking down the drive

and one of the sanctuary dogs

headed up the driveway yapping like mad at her.

I was immediately embarrassed and trying to call the dog back,

but she just simply, out of the small crowd she was with,

she was the first to just kneel down and kind of open her arms up.

Knew exactly how to handle a dog like that,

and the dog fell in love with her instantly.

She's obviously very used to animals. She was brilliant.

I got to see a different side to her,

and her passion for animal welfare was very, very evident.

It was very sincere.

She grasped what it was all about straight away

and she really listened to the stories of some of the individuals.

♪ All I want is freedom ♪

♪ Freedom ♪

♪ Hear me coming ♪

I didn't tell her how much of a fan I was.

I felt I shouldn't, that it was unprofessional or something,

but little did she know

I'd had a poster on my bedroom wall for years.

We had a cup of tea out in front of the house and she was lovely,

and Carey was really nice as well.

Pink agreed to headline a concert in Cardiff, Wales,

to raise funds for thousands of animals in need.

She enabled one of my dreams to come true,

which was to host this concert

and raise the money and the awareness for hundreds of animals.

I hadn't been involved in the music industry,

so it was all very new to me.

So seeing everything being set up was amazing,

and I was in the seats in the arena

just watching all the crews setting up the stage.

She came out and gave me a hug

and said to my ear, "We did it."

You know, "We've made it happen,"

and that was... that was, yeah, that was really special.

You couldn't wish for someone any more wonderful than she is.

What they've done with this charity is absolutely amazing

and it's a night where the whole country comes together and I think it's great.

It wasn't until the start of the new century

that Pink's career as a serious solo contender got underway.

Her breakthrough album, Can't Take Me Home, was released in 2000.

Split personality, which is number one, is my favorite

because it allowed me to sing the way I like to sing.

That's me, 150 percent... like, I love to sing.

That's, that's... growing up listening to 4 Non Blondes and stuff.

Like, you'll recognize those influences in that song.

Can't take me home was her first album.

It was very R&B-driven.

When she first came up, Pink was very much R&B,

just after she first kind of hit the mainstream.

Her debut album was fairly inauspicious, it was R&B-tinged

as a lot of music was back then.

They started out as very kind of R&B at first

and then it slowly transcended into very commercial and very pop.

It was a great album, but since then, her more recent albums

have definitely gone more towards the rock genre.

She dibble-dabbled in many different genres

dependant on what she feels is right at the time.

She looked like she was gonna be shiny R&B,

influenced by Timbaland and Pharrell Williams,

that kind of jerky R&B sound,

but she very quickly left that behind and her punky roots showed through.

She hasn't been able to hide them ever since.

The pop shock rocker's career went from strength to strength.

In 2001, Pink joined forces with Mya, Lil' Kim and Christina Aguilera

covering a high-energy version of Lady Marmalade

for the soundtrack of the hit movie Moulin Rouge.

We actually had a great time together.

We support each other 100 percent.

I'm a fan of theirs, too.

I really enjoy all their music and it was just a blast to be a part of...

to be working with all of them, so, it was fun.

I want to say, this year, myself, along with my girls

Christina Aguilera, Pink and Mya,

we are nominated for a Grammy and we are also performing

at the Grammys, so it's going to be so much fun and I can't wait.

It's like battle of the bitches. It's awesome.

I'm happy to be a part of it.

Lady Marmalade topped the charts around the world.

In the US, it became Pink's first number one single

and earned the star

her first Grammy Award for best pop collaboration.

Initially viewed as just another face in the late 90s crowd of teen pop acts,

the multi-talented artist quickly transcended

and outgrew that label.

The 2001 album release of Missundaztood

sealed Pink's reputation as an accomplished songwriter.

Oh, it was the perfect transformation, it was the perfect...

I think it bridges the gap between the last album and this one.

Missundaztood, that was the first album

she really had more creative control over.

She told the guy at the record label LaFace

to listen to her, because he wasn't listening.

She's always pushed things a bit harder.

Pink came into her own when she made the Missundaztood album.

That pretty much cemented the public's perception of Pink

as the artist currently and forever more known as Pink.

That's what made her the way she is today.

The Missundaztood album featured songwriting contribution

from legendary 4 Non Blondes singer Linda Perry.

She hooks up with Linda Perry

who used to be in 4 Non Blondes in the 90s.

It was an unlikely pairing at the time because Linda Perry had had hits

but wasn't known as a pre-eminent, multi-million selling bespoke songwriter.

This whole Missundaztood thing, which she did with 4 Non Blondes,

right, with Linda Perry,

really pulled out that whole emotional thing with her

and she got really cool.

It was actually Pink's inspired decision to collaborate with her.

She divined something in Perry that would provide the catalyst

for her own transformation from R&B girl to punk pop queen.

It's funny, because the same week I was supposed

to start thinking about my new album,

I was kind of being nosy and going through my make-up artist's book

because he left it out, and I saw her number and I was like,

"Oh, my God, I love her."

I just stole it, quickly wrote it down on my hand and I called her

and left her a message.

I was like, "I love you. You have to call me back.

I got arrested singing your crap out of my window, you owe me.

I can find out where you live."

I was basically her stalker and she called me back.

She's like, "You're nuts, come over."

I did and, we wrote 15 songs in a month and a half

and that was the start of the record.

It wasn't planned, it just... was total freedom and it rocked

and I had so much fun

and just kept going.

I didn't turn back.

The career-defining album

proved to be a monumental success, with sales exceeding 12 million copies.

I was so nervous before this album came out in the States.

I didn't know what was gonna happen, but I was so proud of it and so happy.

That's why I was so nervous, because I was just like,

"This means so much to me.

If people don't like it, I'm gonna be crushed and I'm gonna die."

I had my dad on the phone for a week, and he was getting pretty sick of me

but it feels really good to know you took the chance and...

and it kind of worked

and I get to tell everybody, "I told you so,"

and that's good for me.

I like that kind of stuff.

After the staggering success of Missundaztood,

Pink had entered into the rarefied realms

inhabited only by the world's biggest stars.

Every single illusion that I had is now completely shattered.

It's nothing that you think it is, it's not what it's cracked up to be.

When I was little and I was like, "Okay, I'm gonna be a singer,"

I just figured you just get onstage and sing

and everybody loves you and throws flower petals at your feet.

I didn't know singing was five and a half percent of the whole thing.

I didn't know there was business involved.

I didn't know there was politics, because there's a lot.

Pink is recognized for her tough girl image,

but it's always been the music that mattered most.

The rocker takes no prisoners when it comes to writing lyrics

and her tempestuous on-off relationship

with professional motocross racer Carey Hart

provides the material for many of her songs.

Guys think I'm a man-basher, but that's not it.

It's like, I'm a woman, I happen to like men,

and if they didn't play games with me, I wouldn't have anything to write about,

so a guy can easily take the song and sing it to a woman

because that's his side, but I'm on my side.

You can't expect me to be on your side.

Pink's phases haven't been as multifarious

as other chart pop divas.

There has been a softening and mellowing over the years,

not least because she's gotten married and she's had a child.

The unconventional couple met in 2001, married in 2006,

split up in 2008, and reunited in 2009.

Marriage doesn't change much for us

because we don't look at it in the conventional way.

We've been together for a long time, so...

We're good friends, we're happy.

He's a motocross driver and they met in 2001, at one of the motocross events

and they sort of dated for a couple of years

and she proposed to him at one of his events,

holding up a big card

when he's going over one of the jumps, saying:

"Will you marry me?"

And it said "I'm serious" on the other side.

The thing about Carey Hart, who's a motocross guy...

It was difficult for them to see each other.

We've both been on tour the entire time we've been together,

which has been about four and a half, five years,

so it's very much like being single with, um...

with random hotel visits all over the world.

It's nice.

The Pink-Hart relationship proved to be an unorthodox union.

They had the short separation and got back together.

Pink's marriage is weird.

The whole relationship was on and off, on and off.

They got married, they split up, they had a baby, they got married again.

That's life, isn't it?

I had a lot left over from my last break-up...

with my current husband, baby daddy,

so it's just kind of all over the place.

It's amazing that it's endured through all the different twists and turns

and now he appears in every one of her videos

and things couldn't be going better.

They'll probably split up next week.

They're gonna be one of those couples that have a rocky relationship.

They're both quite fiery people, so it's always gonna happen.

I don't think maturity has anything to do with marriage.

If anything, marriage makes you more immature,

especially in the way that you fight.

Um...

They have a child called Willow, They seem to be pretty happy now.

They sorted themselves out.

It's a responsibility to yourself, who you want to be as a person,

before you can be a parent.

If it's a "Whoops," then you're like,

"I have a lot of work to do on myself before this child starts listening to me."

Pink welcomed her first child in 2011.

For a star who has made a career

out of writing songs about angst and frustrations,

the arrival of her daughter has melted her edges.

I think the way that Willow has inspired my music is that...

The easiest way I can explain it

is I used to be very dramatic and I'm not at all anymore.

And I used to wake up and be like, "Oh, fuck, what do I have to do today?,"

and, "I don't feel good, maybe I have cancer."

I used to just be really dark and now I'm like...

I wake up and check her pulse,

and make sure she's not having a temperature, and then we dance,

and we dance,

and we go on bike rides, and we dance some more,

and everything's a song and it's a lot more fun.

Seeing her the other night...

There is a little, subtle difference.

She is still a kick-ass, rock momma but there is a difference.

She was singing The Perfect Song, which has a word in it,

and she was joking onstage and saying she was about to sing it

and because Willow wasn't around, she was really gonna kick it out

but she says, "Oh, but the mother instinct in me."

She said she looked around the crowd

and she could see young kids in the audience

and she was like, "I can't do it."

So... and she wouldn't have done that a few years ago.

I don't believe being a mother has softened her,

I think being a parent has made her a bit more open-minded.

Your goals, ambitions, ways of human life will change when you're a parent,

and I think it's fair to say that's had an influence

on what she kind of does and how she does it

and how many tours she does.

Motherhood's softened her image

because she's gotten more feminine in her looks

and she looks comfortable in her own skin,

which she wasn't to start off with

and that was part of her initial, radical thing,

but now she's just a bit happier, I think.

It's just about... I think it adds some of her edge to her,

but she still rocks out, as well.

Studio sessions used to be, "I'm gonna start my record.

Let's get the whiskey and some cigarettes and let's do this thing,"

and now, it's Monday through Friday from one to ten,

and... um... she would be there every couple of hours

and everybody I work with is a friend or a parent,

so it was very, very easy.

The singer-songwriter admits having a rock star mom

could be a little confusing for her daughter.

I can tell it's very confusing for her.

Two things, Mommy's voice on the phone, this is how we listen to my music,

and Skype with Grandmamma and Grandpop.

Can you imagine being six months old

and seeing a little talking head in the computer?

It used to be something we could only imagine.

Now she pulls down the computer and looks behind it.

I'm like, "Right? I know. Isn't that fucking weird?"

So it's fun to...

She likes the Black Eyed Peas, which is hard at 7:00 a.m. sometimes.

2003 saw the release of Pink's third studio album,

Try This, which continued with her reinvention

and introduced fans to a new, heavier rock direction.

The biggest challenge was nobody telling me what I couldn't do.

I've always had people telling me that I can't do something

and I've proven them wrong,

so it was a little uninspiring just to be completely free...

to do whatever I wanted.

It was a challenge to make another record in general for me

because I felt like I poured out my entire 23 years of life

on Missundaztood

and I figured I'd have to live 20 more years

if I had anything to talk about, but it happened and I was inspired.

Try This, that was when she really started getting rocky.

Try This got her a Grammy, which was kind of artist credibility.

Her voice is unique,

because a lot of the female artists out there at the moment

have got very poppy voices,

and they all can sound pretty much the same.

In 2004, three of the most powerful women

in show business joined forces for a Pepsi commercial.

Pink, Britney Spears and Beyoncé stood united during the premiere in London

as hundreds of fans braved Britain's arctic weather

to catch a glimpse of the global mega-stars.

Why do you think Pepsi chose the three of you?

Um, I think, you know, we're all so diverse

and we're so different and when you put people like that together,

it's very interesting for people to see

that diversity in the characters, basically, you know?

And I think that's why they chose us and it worked out.

Our chemistry together when we were shooting

was really cool, so...

Who made the best gladiator?

The best gladiator? I don't know, I've got some tricks up my sleeve.

I can really work it out.

I can really fight, so they better watch out.

I think we all represent something different

and we all can reach different people,

but I think the combination of us three was just genius, you know?

Um... Our voices are different, but when you put it together,

it was the soul, the rock and the pop, it was just...

It turned out great and everyone looks different.

Just the variations of everything kind of complemented each other.

Who do you think made the best gladiator?

I don't know.

I'm not sure. That's not nice.

I don't know.

Not me, how about that?

2006 saw the release of I'm not Dead,

a testament to Pink's enduring popularity and widespread appeal.

I've written every song, I just... I only play drums,

so I can't really get much melodical inspiration from that.

Although, I've tried.

I'm not Dead was pretty rad as well, and she went with Rancid for that one.

I worked with incredible people,

um, Butch Walker, Billy Mann, Mike Elizondo, Max Martin, Dr. Luke...

I'm a very, very lucky girl.

2008's electrifying Funhouse album

reached the coveted number one spot in six countries,

while the Funhouse tour proved to be a sell-out around the world.

We've never sold this many advanced tickets for ever,

and it's really exciting and comforting that people want to come...

play with us.

It's a fun show. It's more than I've ever done before.

Everybody's had a really good time putting it together and the band's tight.

I'm just trying to remember the words, at this point.

Yeah...

As you can see, the stage is not built yet,

or as you can hear.

The band's really tight, I'm ready.

I have to remember the words,

which I haven't been recently, but it makes me laugh, so...

As long as we don't take ourselves too seriously, we're okay.

It seemed the last rites on Pink's career

would be administered by her record label, Jive,

with the 2010 release of her greatest hits album,

but a curious thing happened.

Pink survived and her label did not.

From the time she first came to prominence,

Pink has refused to live up to the female pop singer stereotype

and consistently breaks the conventional celebrity mold.

The ultimate goal was to win an award and to tell every teacher

that never believed in me where they could stick it.

But then, when you actually get there, you don't feel that anger anymore

because you've done the work and you feel good about it

and it becomes a positive thing,

so when you win that award, the first thing on your mind is not,

"And my fourth grade teacher,

I hated you and I told you I'd be up here!"

It goes away, I don't know.

And it was nice to be able to put a certain finger in the air and say,

"Look at the person you thought wouldn't be anything,"

but after that, it's more like,

"All right, I'm here now, now what?

What am I gonna do with all this?

Am I gonna be a vacuous...

anorexic, unhealthy, waste-of-space filler?

Or am I going to do what I was raised to do,

which is be a freedom fighter, or piss the world off."

The edgy pop icon is certainly happy to stir up controversy.

She's a rock chic, through and through.

I think it's her honesty that really appeals to people.

She's a strong-minded lady.

She likes to surprise people.

She likes to step outside the box

and she doesn't like conforming.

She has got an outspoken attitude and I greatly admire her for that.

You get an example of Pink, the principle performer,

when you hear that Prince William

invited her to perform at his 21st birthday party,

which was extraordinarily flattered, but she turned it down.

Why? Because she discovered that he shoots animals.

Not on a regular basis,

and he doesn't really sway to the sharp shot,

but, yeah, well done, Pink.

He invited me to his 21st birthday and I read the whole thing

about how he was in Africa...

ramming spears through animals.

That hurts my heart, and I wanted him to know.

If he wants me at his birthday party, then he'll listen to me.

He might not like it, but I didn't like what I read, either.

I'm not surprised Pink refused to play at his party.

She doesn't think that animals should be killed

for our entertainment of the so-called sport,

and I hope that that kind of action from celebrities like Pink

will encourage people to change their ways.

She stands by her morals...

um... and it doesn't matter

what kind of temptation is pointed towards her,

be it a royal member or, you know, someone off the street,

she stands by it, she's kick-ass.

That's just about being very present and aware and learning and changing...

and I just feel very alive and feisty and, you know, I have a lot to say,

so I will not sit down and shut up!

She has this thing where it's just...

And you can't tell, you're like, "Are you happy, angry? I don't know.

I'm just gonna wait over there."

Split personalities. That kind of sums Pink up.

She's the bouncy, fun, bright, pop girl on the one hand,

a girl you want to take home to meet your parents the other hand.

If you take her home to meet them,

she's liable to do something outrageous and make a show of herself.

She just can't stop herself.

I haven't been arrested in a long time.

I'm very proud of myself, which just means I haven't gotten caught.

I mean, I get kicked out of places a lot

because I'm very outspoken and I stick up for my friends...

but... and I like to have a good time...

so sue me.

Um, I don't really get in that much trouble.

People allow me to do...

pretty much whatever I want.

Pink is a woman to be admired for many reasons.

Over the course of her ground-breaking career,

the controversial singer has been a fierce animal rights supporter.

Since I was in grade school, just my two issues in life

have always been animal rights, animal cruelty,

and the legalization of marijuana...

I gave that up a long time ago.

That's never gonna happen.

It takes someone who's a bit gutsy and a bit bold

to speak up for animal rights,

because it's not an issue in the mainstream.

Pink is a pop star with a conscience.

She's very passionate about many campaigns.

She's a massive PETA supporter.

That's an organization close to her heart.

PETA's been working with Pink for nearly a decade.

She's been anti-fur her whole life,

unlike some pop stars that claim to be fashion icons and innovative leaders.

Pink is not afraid to speak out.

Beyoncé and Jennifer Lopez

have been made aware of how cruel the fur trade is,

so if they choose to not take action and not to stop wearing fur,

then there's nothing I can do about that.

I can only choose not to support anything that they do.

She uses her power quite wisely, quite savvily,

but she's not too underground to alienate people.

Like the stuff with the anti-fur lobby.

She'll put her neck on the line. She's quite honest.

She uses her position to bring attention to some really sensitive...

um... issues...

and she does it in a really wonderful way

because she's not shoving information down people's throats.

I would just say that the people that do wear fur in this day and age,

I can only hope that they become fur in their next life.

I think every mink coat or every fur coat

should come with a video showing someone how it's made.

If you can watch the video and then still purchase the coat

and you can live with that, then you deserve to wear that coat.

Take it, and then pass it down to your generation of people,

to the next generation in your bloodline

because you're capable of doing that.

If you're not thinking about what you're doing, that's the problem.

Most teenagers aren't bothered

about what a spokesperson for PETA like me has to say,

but they can relate to Pink.

She has a huge appeal right across the spectrum

and it's because of that appeal

that she's able to put across the animal rights message

to far corners of the world

that sometimes we mere mortals just can't reach.

A hundred years ago, PETA would have been lobbying

to seek the favor of politicians who decades ago

were the sort of moral leaders of our time.

Now people are much more fascinated by rock stars.

They look to them to see what they're eating,

what they're wearing, and that's why we go after them.

We're very lucky we're able to work with people like Pink,

who give up not only their time and often their money that they donate,

but, you know, to take the time out of a worldwide tour

where you're doing countless interviews, your songwriting...

That's just a wonderful gift that she gives to animals.

I think you gotta choose your battles, and I like to say I'm a work in progress

when it comes to, you know, balancing out which causes to follow

and how to be as good as possible.

I wear leather boots, I don't eat cow.

You have to be a work in progress. As long as you're aware,

the first step is denial, not only in AA, but in life.

Um...

It's just... You kind of just gotta choose your battles.

For me, I'm a vegaquarian. I don't eat any meat, I eat fish.

I'm working on that.

I gotta watch Finding Nemo a couple more times and I'll be there.

Um...

I do wear leather boots. I try not to use any in my touring

so I'm not like going through pair after pair after pair after pair.

I suppose everyone in that certain sense has the ability to be outspoken,

but then there's those who say it and do it

and a lot of people don't, but she does, which is cool.

When Pink speaks, people take notice.

You know, she has this megaphone at her disposal and she uses it,

thank goodness, for the sake of animals.

Fur is rampant and it's increasing,

which is insane to me with all the alternatives

and all the materials out there.

I find it repulsive. It's my opinion, I stand behind it.

I won't wear it.

I try not to converse with people that do because I get nauseous.

I'm always gonna side with the animals.

Displaying the kind of honesty rarely exhibited by major stars,

the mega-talented singer

has never been less than forthright about her views.

When she heard that someone had thrown a puppy off an overpass in Los Angeles,

she donated $5,000 so that the dog could have emergency surgery.

This is the kind of compassionate woman that Pink is.

Now that times are changing, that people are starting to see

that there's more to being a pop star

than looking nice and selling out big shows.

Pink's also spoken out about horse-drawn carriages in New York.

I have been in New York a lot in the last couple years,

and every time I see it, it hurts my heart.

Every time I see a horse-drawn carriage, I stand in the middle of the street

and yell, "Animal cruelty."

There's gotta be a more mature way of going about it.

The driver, the passengers are shocked that Pink is there

shouting "Animal cruelty" at them

because it's fair enough, and these horses are cruelly abused

by unwitting tourists who go on them in New York City,

and what we can say about Pink is that she gives her all for animals.

She works tirelessly to speak up

for those who can't speak up for themselves.

She's a wonderful asset to have onboard at team PETA.

In 2012, Pink, who has always been an advocate of individualism,

announced that she would be

the new face to represent beauty brand Covergirl Cosmetics.

I, believe it or not, have always been a make-up girl.

I have a picture of myself in my Smurfs onesie

at five years old with my curls and just lips and rouge.

The truth about make-up is it's necessary.

That and really good lighting.

Everyone needs a fan as well.

I was surprised by that latest development in her career

and the approbation of the cosmetics industry

because she seemed to be apart from all of that.

That seems to contradict the assumptions that we've had about Pink

about not doing what's expected and not being conventionally attractive

and not playing up to stereotypical ideas

of what constitutes a perfect-looking pop woman.

It was a good move by her,

because she was saying that you can have short hair and piercings,

you don't have to look like this to be attractive,

so it wasn't hugely surprising.

That was a good move.

It's a contemporary way of working.

If you get Covergirl to help you out, you help them out

and then stuff gets paid for,

so you get a bigger house in Beverly Hills.

In 2013, Pink was named by VH1 as one of the sexiest artists alive.

A true advocate of individuality, the star effortlessly mixes glamour and grit

with unconventional, tough-girl style.

Her style is very much individual, very punk rock,

very... it's like gangster, it's like... it's very her.

She didn't really follow trends.

She kind of sets her own, which is a good thing.

She's never retro or looking back. She is always very current.

She likes to be different with everything.

Her music, her attitude, her style.

I have a lot of different looks. It depends on the mood.

It's an expression of your mood,

and for tour, my make-up is colorful

and it's always gotta be smoky and sexy,

and then there's just the no make-up make-up look,

which is actually harder than any of them.

Um, just depends on your mood.

It's just like your outfit, or the color of your tube socks.

2013 proved to be a stellar year

for the mega-talented superstar.

The overwhelming success of The Truth About Love album

and world tour was rebirth of a career at its finest.

I was having a lot of fun. I think that's a new thing for me.

I was having a lot more fun than I've ever had before.

And I think, production-wise, it's a lot more interesting

and the musicality... I feel like I raised the bar for myself.

People heard that there was a new Pink album coming

and they didn't see that many interviews with her,

and there was an anticipation her best days were behind.

She put out the first single and did really well.

It was refreshing, kind of like, "Okay, cool, this is good."

The Truth About Love is as successful as in her prime kind of albums.

On YouTube, she's got millions and millions and millions of hits.

It went to number one in English countries.

She just doesn't seem to be slowing down at all.

There seems to be no end.

To see her being on such a high caliber of popularity is amazing.

I'm really happy.

Pink, if you are listening and watching this, world tour, let's go!

When you're on a world tour, it is crazy.

The demand for any artist, no matter how big,

unless the company sees fit

or unless it was M. J., R.I.P., they don't give you a lot of time.

They want things done now.

To dance on a tour is very, very gruelling on the body.

It takes a lot out.

All the countries you go to, you don't get time to spend in them.

You arrive, you go on the plane, you arrive at the airport.

You go to the hotel,

you're practically in rehearsals probably that same day,

then you're mash because you're jet-lagged

as well as being tired from rehearsals.

Then you wake up and do that again,

and the majority of the time, it's show time that same day.

The fitness level needs to be up here

because you're gonna be doing number after number for two hours.

The physical conditioning that your body has to be in is crazy.

You have to get used to being jet-lagged and being tired.

Anyone getting involved, I'd say, "Go to the gym."

Pink is recognized as one of the most daring

and innovative performers of the modern era.

But until recently, she has been curiously underrated.

Adored by her fans,

but surprisingly ignored by the mainstream media.

Pink has had to work harder

to achieve the level of success enjoyed by her peers.

She's almost like, um, hiding in plain sight, Pink.

She's huge but no one seems to write or talk about her.

She's underrated a lot as an artist,

probably the same way Prince is underrated a lot.

She has been, to a certain audience,

a huge artist for years,

but she has not received the recognition

that she should have been receiving until very recently.

That's frustrated me, because I admire her so much,

both as an artist and as an individual.

Sells millions of records but doesn't seem to register

as big as Britney or Katy Perry or Lady Gaga, one of those.

She doesn't actively court the media.

She's not like Madonna, who you know that what she's saying

is gonna be tied around her press a lot of the time.

She's very cool in that way.

She doesn't do many interviews.

She doesn't try and conform to the sort of girly pop artist

who gets a bit all the time.

Her talent is really what has driven her career

rather than the publicity and any sort of stunts.

To her, I don't think it matters.

She just cares what the people who support her feel.

If there's something popular, I tend to not...

I try not go anywhere near it.

Um, and that's funny, being a pop star.

So, I think it's helpful, I...

Well, also, everything's really techno-y as well

and that, like, gives me bad flashbacks to my past

and makes me want to grab a glow stick.

So, I try to steer clear.

She's getting bigger and bigger,

and she is now starting to get the recognition

she should have been getting.

One measure of Pink's contemporary relevance

is, if you do a compare and contrast with One Direction,

Justin Bieber, who sold out five nights each at the O2 in London,

where Pink's done four, and that's pretty impressive.

Bieber's a lot newer, One Direction a hell of lot newer.

Pink's been around for a decade and a half,

and to still be able to sell out four nights of a major venue

in one of the capital cities of the world, that is seriously impressive.

The media has not given her that type of shine.

That sucks. Maybe that's what she wanted.

But now she's back in it. It's boom!

Over the course of her ground-breaking career,

Pink's music has struck a chord

not only with her legions of fans around the world

but has also paved the path

for many of today's most popular female artists.

I'm giving face, people, giving face.

That's all I want to do, is give this.

Pink's been a huge influence

for a lot of the more recent female artists.

She influenced Rihanna, Miley Cyrus...

She's influenced

all these different people who have come since.

You'll see that people like Miley Cyrus and Taylor Swift

have taken a leaf out of Pink's book

with regard to how to outgrow that bit of your musical career

and then embrace the next stage.

She influenced a lot of people on the way,

from Rihanna to Adele.

Adele saw one of her performances at the Brixton Academy

and says it was a defining moment in her life.

I'm the biggest Pink fan, yeah.

I've been listening to Pink since I was 11,

so, again, to be anywhere near her is just amazing.

Just feels a bit of an imposter.

I was waiting for someone to go, "Uh, you got Punk'd."

Well, I'm some random, random girl from South London, in England,

and I'm not your typical pop star or nothing,

and people are making my dreams come true, so...

♪ Everybody's gotta feel a winner Sometimes ♪

Pink is an irrepressible performer.

Synonymous with exuberance and high energy,

she continues to conquer in a teen-dominated industry,

a tremendous testament to her brilliant career.

She's an original.

Despite so much competition from new acts,

she's still holding her own after a decade of work.

She's one of the few, if not the only artist of her generation,

that has the legs to endure for another decade.

Pink is an amalgamation of someone that you would call an artist

in every sense of the word.

She's getting new fans all the time.

She's obviously growing as an artist and growing in popularity.

Seeing her journey, you've got a sense that she's become

more of the artist that she wants to be.

If she stays true to herself and follows her direction,

there will always be a place for her within the arts.

I also see her venturing into more film or the acting side.

She's done a few cameo appearances in film.

She did the Charlie's Angels film.

It's always good to branch out and to do different things.

She'd be great doing the X Factor thing.

I think she'd do that really well.

She'd be very good as a mouthy judge.

You never know. You never know with Pink.

Pink, who has previously dismissed hosting American Idol,

still rejects the idea of signing up as a judge on a talent show.

It's not my deal. It's not cute unless you have an accent.

The only reason Simon gets away with it is because it sounds cool.

It doesn't sound cool coming from me.

I don't feel like we're creating songwriters or musicians, or...

I mean, it's a karaoke contest.

There's some great karaoke singers, but I'm not getting a lot out of it.

Pink really is one of a kind.

An electrifying singer, an accomplished songwriter

and an iconic performer.

She has just got that natural talent.

She'll be able to carry on her career as long as she wants to.

She's gonna be around in ten years time.

She's gonna still be rocking it.

I was gonna say she might not be as active on her tours

and the shows that she puts on, but I take that back.

Knowing Pink, she probably will be.

She'll be just as amazing and hard-core and just throwing herself around the stage

and doing stuff that make you drop your jaw.

With no harness, I'm sure.

And, oh yeah, I think she'll be a popular artist

for many, many years to come.

This remarkable woman has carved an exceptional career

through being a true artist,

and as for the future,

well, with Pink being Pink, anything is possible.