>> beyonce as you've never seen or heard her before. it's a bit embarrassing because she hasn't brought any money with her. the woman behind the legend who takes a schoolgirl to international singing sensation. a life with husband jay-z and they are blockbuster baby news. >> i need to have a baby. >> beyonce world exclusive, an intimate hour. this is "piers morgan tonight." ♪ looking so crazy ♪ your love's got me looking so crazy ♪ >> beyonce has won a few grammys but a few hours from now releases her new album tigtled "four." it's nice you came to london to see me. i sat and watched you, had a couple of beers and turned on the television. you were the first ever won woman to headline. amazing achievement. what was it like for you last night? >> well, you know, i'm still walking on the clouds. i'm still kind of shocked. i can't believe what happened to me happened yesterday, and i think it's because i've seen glass ton berry in photographs and when i've traveled here and on television and only amazing rock stars perform. it's just the coolest festival, and i was able to see my husband perform there a couple years ago. it was one of the most exciting nights. he had a bit of controversy, and he came out and performed oasis song and the crowd went crazy. i thought, oh, my god. i'm just honored to be here. i prayed that one day i could do it. and three years later i was asked to headline and be the first woman and first african-american woman. >> that's the amazing thing. never mind any other criteria. you were the first woman to ever play this incredible event, to ever headline it. >> it's a little strange when you think about it, but i'm just happy that i'm the first woman and it was so many women out there. it was incredible, because the men usually when i have them do certain parts, they try to be cool. they were like just belting out the songs and everybody was unit united. >> what's your reaction to this? ♪ ♪ let me love you baby ♪ oh no ♪ oh no >> and watching that, i'm struck by several things. one was the glint in your eye when you said you always wanted to be a rock star, like you felt you were a proper rocker. >> exactly. >> is that what it does to you? >> it's the mud. it's all the beautiful people. >> a lot of them are quite ugly, actually. >> it's not about fashion or being cool. everyone just is cool, and that's what i love about it. it's not about your production or how many hits you have. it's about good music and everything coming from the inside and everyone has so much love and appreciation for a good performance. you know, i love when i can not have to think about all the other things that are not as interesting and belt out the songs and dan from the heart. i know that is -- >> here's the thing watching you last night. it's like this giant test coming at me. you look tiny here. >> people say i'm a lot smaller than they think i am on tv. i think they say that to everyone. they say to other girls in destiny's child toshgs my husband and mother. i think it's just television. >> the thing that struck me watching you about your -- i never watched a whole beyonce concert before. i was fascinated to see how you go about this. it the energy levels you kept up are extraordinary. b, the size of your heels. how did you stay up? >> it was very slippery, and the first song i was like, okay. am i going to make it? i thought i'd have to switch shoes. i've been practicing in heels since i was 13 years old. to be honest, it's kind of second nature. the heels are second nature. it's just a part of it. whenever i rehearse, i have on my heels. >> the whole treheme of last nit was about empowerment of women. you were strutting around that stage making men like me feeling pretty useless. i have no right to even be near this woman. >> not at all. >> you're quite intimidating, this kind of thing you do. >> no. i definitely feel it is my job to empower women, and i remember having this dream that my band was all females and i fold my male band at the time, i'm sorry, guys. you are all so talented and you're not women. they all had wigs on and came to the last performance like, we can do it! i found these incredible women and incredible background singers. i have men on the stage as well. i have great male dancers. >> washing your shoe heels for you? >> no. we have incredible dancers, and it's great to have that camaraderie. i feel like i learned so much from the other musicians, and it makes me want to be a better musician. >> when you're there with 175,000 people going crazy, this is never going to happen to me. much as i like to think it will, it isn't. those days are over. when you walk out and you get this surge of energy from a crowd like that, you've never performed in front of a crowd that big, what does it feel like? >> before i performed, i was so scared. i was like a leaf. i was really, really afraid. i had to just say forget that it's 175,000 people, and pretend it's like the show you did two days ago and you've been doing this your whole life and have fun. we all got together and said our prayer and took our breaths and tried to exhale all the negativity. i had to tell myself, i deserve it. i'm a diva and worked hard and i psyched myself up. once you hear the crowd it's time to rock and have a good time. >> i love that phrase. i'm a diva. you i say that proudly. >> i met what a di centre a is supposed to be. patti labelle and tyne na turner and these incredible women. they're graceful and talented and strong and fearless and brave and someone with humility. i think it's an proper time to be a diva. i did not show up in my costume that i wore yesterday, because i -- >> i was kind of hoping you might. it wasn't really a costume. it was more like a bit of beachwear. >> no, it was not. it was a costume, and i did not wear that because it's appropriate for the stage. there is a certain mentality, a certain aura appropriate for the stage. it's only appropriate for the stage. >> what went into the thinking for the outfit for me? you woke up and thought it's piers and cnn? >> i tried on a few dresses and i liked the color. i tried on the red suit and try odd. this i like the color. it makes me feel happy. >> what made you think it's right one for me? >> it's all about the color. >> it's the warmest day in britain for five years. you brought the heat, lady. >> yes. >> what i'm fascinated about with your new album is you took this year off. you worked so hard in the way your parents did before you. what did you learn about yourself in this year off? >> i learned a lot about myself. the biggest thing i learned is i love to perform. i love music. i love what i do. i love singing in the studio and writing songs and coming up with video treatments to the point that during that year i do not count the 72 songs i recorded at work because it's what i was born to do. and i learned balance. i learned the importance of taking time for myself. i was moving around so much that i had no idea that i really have 16 grammys. i've heard that, and i got up and accepted my awards. i didn't realize what an amazing accomplishment that was. >> you never had time presumably? it's just this treadmill. the more successful you get, the les time you have to enjoy it, i think. >> exactly. >> you went enough, i'm having a year out and enjoy what i achieved and a bit of real life. what was the most fun you had in the real world? >> well, i did everything, you know. i definitely enjoyed the simple things like, you know, driving and picking my nephew up from school. traveling, but not working and actually visiting museums and seeing ballets and having great conversations with people on the plane. >> really? >> yeah. just to have a normal -- >> why don't i sit next to people like you on a plane? can you let me know your schedule next time? >> okay. >> do you start talking to a random person? >> yeah. it's great when people don't really know who you are. it's funny but people say i'm sorry. i'm just realizing and i didn't know. that's why the conversation is so great. you forget how wonderful it is to just -- >> when they ask you what you do, what do you say? >> they didn't not until people start getting weird and asking for pictures and they're like, what's going on? but i visited, you know, the pyramids and i was able to sing at the top of pyramids. >> i heard you sang "ava maria" and it echoed around. >> it was beautiful. who thought i'd get an opportunity to do that. i was there along with my family. >> any truth to the rumor that you and jay-z are having joint pyramids built? i just made it up. >> that's a good one. i haven't heard that one. that's a good one. it might stick. >> we're going to have a little break. when we come back, i'll show you incredible footage of a 6-year-old beyonce knowles performing. >> where it all started. ♪ girls ♪ we run the world ♪ girls we run the world ♪ girls girls focus on everything else, the less time i have to take care of me. that's why i like glucerna shakes. they have slowly digestible carbs to help minimize blood sugar spikes, which can help lower a1c. glucerna products help me keep everything balanced. 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>> you seemed like in utopia for you and couldn't get better. i keep hearing how shy you are. last night i haven't seen such self-confidence in any performer. what do you get it from? how do you create that kind of aura when by nature urt not really like that? >> i don't know. i think i -- for one, i'm not shy anymore. i am the person at the dinner party that is quiet and observing and having a one on one conversation. i get embarrassed when it's a lot of people, and a lot of eyes. i'm still that way. i wouldn't say shy. but now, you know, on the stage i've been doing it for a while, and it's my place to be me and be free, and i don't feel like i'm being judged. i feel like it doesn't matter how irritated i am or angry i am or excited or in love or whatever emotion, when i get on the stage, i'm just purely free. i feel so honored every time i get on the stage, because i know. i'm doing it for 15 years, and it's what i love to do. so many people love to do the same thing, and i they don't perform in front of a 175,000 people. >> a lot of performers come from quite damaged backgrounds or dysfunctional in some way. what's quite refreshing about your story is it's not really like that. you came from a remarkably successful family. not lots of money, but your dad was a top zexerox guy and your m run a successful salon. they taught you to work hard and about the important when you get there, to be humble and not lose the sense of who you are. >> they absolutely did. i learned, you know -- my mother worked 13 hours a day, and i never heard her complain. she worked until her feet were callused. my father was such an incredible entrepreneur and anything and everything he said he would have, he worked until he had it. he taught me there's no such thing as no. i had a lot of great support. i think the support is really a huge, you know, factor in my success, knowing that if something didn't work out, i still was loved, and you know, having that security is really important. >> your mom is only 10 feet away as we speak, so she's hear protecting you even now. she comes almost everywhere you go. >> she does. >> what are the values she instilled in you. >> well, definitely that beauty fades, and who you are from within is forever. and definitely be aa woman of your word and hard work. she is always correcting me and, you know, i feel like it doesn't matter if you are the janitor or the president, everyone's the same. making sure that i keep my humility and my spirit. she's always honest with me. >> since you became famous and successful, when has she been the most angry with you? >> i remember when we first had our single on the radio, and i was starting to feel like i was hot. i was in the record store, and she was talking to me. i started singing because i didn't want to hear whatever she was saying. i was about 15. the song was playing on the radio, and i'm like yeah, these guys were like that's beyonce and i thought i was hot. she smacked the crap out of me in the store. when i tell you, what happp, wh. and sent me to the car and was like, i don't care what song you have on the radio. you are my child. up do not disrespect me. i will never forget it. it was a great lesson. >> you've never sung again like that in a shop with your mom? >> no, absolutely not. >> when i met her i can tell, a, she has your beauty. i don't think this beauty fades. there was a steely look in her eyes, you mess with my girl, old man, you're going to get it. i'm just a smack, smack away if one question goes wrong, she's there? >> she is. she is my friend, and i mean, we don't agree on everything and i'm an adult. we have an our own moments because we work together with our clothing line. she is respectful. >> what is she most proudest of that you achieved? >> i say probably when i sang "at last" for the president. i think my father, all of his history, he grew up in gaston, alabama. he was escorted to school every day because he was one of the first african-americans in his school, and my mother it in her day she couldn't ride in the front of the bus. for her to see her child -- >> doesn't it sound amazing when you say things like that now in this day and age. in our generation even that's what your parents went through. i find that a staggering thing even now when i hear it. >> i do, too. it's true. it's a new day, and my parents saw me being a part of that history. now i see my nephew, and he's like, i don't understand why everyone is saying that obama is black. it's just normal to him. that makes me -- that's my, you know, joy. it's great to see the growth, and it's great that my parents could live to see that and it makes me very proud. >> hold that there, because i want to talk more about that amazing night when you sang at the inauguration. you talk about nerves, the nerves at that event. >> yes. >> let's discuss that in a moment. ♪ what goes around comes back around ♪ ♪ hey hey me baby [ grandma ] why do relationships matter? 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