"I feel empowered. Finally," Rowland says with a laugh and a snap of her fingers. "When you don't believe in yourself, you feel like you're living in fear. You don't give yourself the opportunity to believe that you can. And as much as you tell yourself you can't do it, you end up not doing it. Me? I was complacent and comfortable where I was."Instead of running away from the international market that has adopted her, she has decided to embrace it.
"Here, sometimes it's like my music didn't quite work, but overseas it's on top of everybody's chart. I've had more international success than domestic success, and I think that opens my eyes up to music. I mean, I just got back from performing in Lebanon. Lebanon!" she says.
Rowland, who is single, says she hopes to release a solo record at the end of 2009 or early 2010.
"I have a new boost of energy," she says. "All the creative juices are flowing, and I'm having so much fun in the studio because I'm making dance records. And I'm working with producers who are just as curious about the sound internationally, too."
Rowland says her next release will be dance-heavy, but she won't forget her R&B roots. She still covets domestic success; she's had it before with Destiny's Child, which sold more than 50 million records worldwide.
"I don't ever want to get in a box to where I'm thinking that this is the only place that can ever exist," she says. "I love being overseas just as much as I love being home. Plus, I know all my eating spots over there now, so I'm good!"
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