Singer/actress Beyonce poses in white and looks absolutely ravishing in a sexy photo shoot for the latest issue of Los Angeles Confidential Magazine (March 2009). Beyonce talks about how she likes to keep her humble personality intact and only become Sasha Fierce on stage.

The singer also says her marriage to Jay-Z is not perfect but confesses she is lucky to be still happy in her first relationship. Here are some highlights from Beyonce’s LA Magazine interview:

On taming her sexuality: “I still have the values I grew up with. The reason I maintain my sanity and I’m still the same person is because of those values. When I’m performing, I’m able to be whoever I want to be on stage. I have my alter ego, Sasha — and it’s kind of like a character but I leave it on the stage, and I don’t walk around being over-the-top in real life. It’s just a part of my artistic expression.”

On 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. You can try to defend it, but it’s difficult when you read things and people are always asking. You have to have a very strong relationship, way stronger than people who aren’t being scrutinized.”

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. Fans always tell me, ‘You got me through this argument with my boyfriend,’ or, ‘Because of you I was strong enough to stick it through.’”

On tackling her role as Etta James in ‘Cadillac Records’: “When I’m doing a movie, Beyonce is nowhere in the film. One thing playing Etta James taught me is that I can’t be afraid or ashamed of the things that I like, even if it doesn’t make sense to other people, or even if it’s shocking to people. It comes to a point where I know it’s time to take a chance. I don’t have a need to do another record to make more money or become a bigger superstar. Doing the Etta James movie was a scary thing for me. I read the script and said, ‘This is great, but what are people going to think?’ I even talked to people at the label and they said, ‘I’m not sure if you want to have a needle in your arm the week after the album comes out…’”

[images: la confidential]

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