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No, she's not going to be seen draped in something once sported by an animal any time soon.
And she's not going to stop barking at fur-clad celebrities with whom she shares red carpets, or sending them leaflets and information on the barbaric means often used to create fur coats.
However, she has thought up a new anti-fur campaign to hit pelt-loving celebrities where it hurts most: their ego.
"My new campaign is '
Fur: It Makes You Look Fat'," Pink says, followed by a wicked laugh.
"If we say fur is actually not flattering, maybe more of these people will care if they think they look fat, because obviously they don't care they're skinning animals alive for the fur."
There is something she's keen to clarify. A British newspaper claimed she called Beyonce a b***h for continuing to wear fur.
"I don't even use that word," Pink states. "I don't let people around me use that word. I didn't speak to my father-in-law for a week because he used that word.
I'd never call anyone a b***h.
"If they wore fur I'd call them uninformed, unintelligent, ignorant and disgusting, but not a b***h."
Pink has never been shy about being outspoken about things she believes in.
Indeed, it's her very vocal opinions that many believe have alienated her from her homeland of America, but endeared her to the rest of the world.
Pink's fourth album, I'm Not Dead, entered the US Top 10 but quickly sank, with singles like Who Knew and U + UR Hand not even scraping into the US Top 100.
Yet in the rest of the world it's sold just under four million copies. It's five times platinum in Australia, racking up 350,000 sales, with three consecutive Top 5 singles.
Pink says she's not frustrated about the lack of love back home.
"I'm not surprised," she says. "There's a lot of artists I'm friends with and we sit and talk about how
the taste here (in the US) is pretty awful.
It's very conservative.
"There's no real movements happening. I'm in Europe more than I am America and there's a real vibe, a musical vibe. People are into finding their own stuff, supporting their favourite artists. You don't really feel that here."
But Pink hasn't given up on America.
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I'm forever the underdog, which I'm completely OK with. It's a role I'm used to playing."
As part of a mission to woo back some of the five million Americans who bought her 2001 album Missundaztood, this month Pink started a three-month jaunt as support to Justin Timberlake on his US tour.
"It's humbling," Pink says of downgrading from headline act in Europe and Australia to support act in the US.
"I don't get bored or too comfortable. It's always a challenge and I like that. I'm in and out, short and sweet, and remind people I'm a performer not a radio person."
However, Pink being Pink, she's not dumbing her show down for America.
I'm Not Dead's most political moment, Dear Mr President, remains in her set for the US tour with Timberlake.
The song has become the most controversial in Pink's canon; annoying many in the US. The open letter to George W Bush comes with lyrics like "How do you sleep at night" before questioning his involvement in the Iraq war, his issues with homosexuality and the stinging line "You've come a long way from whiskey and cocaine."
In concert Pink sings the track with footage of the war in Iraq and Hurricane Katrina as the visual backdrop, just to make sure no one misses the song's target.
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They love that song in France. It's been a hit in Belgium. They don't love it so much in Anaheim," Pink laughs.
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I haven't even got to the Midwest yet, so wish me luck. But that song is staying in the show. I'm not going to shy away."
Dear Mr President (which topped the charts in Belgium after being released there as an acoustic download) has even been given the thumbs up by Neil Young, who lists it as one of his approved "protest songs" on his website, while hippy songwriter David Crosby emailed Pink about how the song brought him to tears.
"I was dumbstruck," Pink says of the Crosby email. "I felt like I'd finally accomplished something."
Pink is also eyeing Dear Mr President as a potential fifth single from I'm Not Dead.
"I didn't want it to be one of the first singles, I didn't want it to be a publicity stunt or use it to sell albums, but I'd like it to be a single at this point because the album's already done what it's going to do. I'd like more people to hear it, if for nothing else but to get fire under their toes."
She admits she enjoys the debate the song has caused.
"I write songs like Dear Mr President and Stupid Girls and Family Portrait and people aren't going to agree with you when you have a strong opinion," she says.
"I'm not the kind of person that stays neutral to stay lucrative. There's definitely a neutral trend happening. That's very successful for most people.
People in America particularly don't like my sarcasm. But it ain't going to go away. Nor am I."
Dear Mr President forms the emotional heart of her I'm Not Dead tour, surrounded by a cover of Bob Marley's Redemption Song and often Janis Joplin's Piece of My Heart as a way to introduce the work of her heroes to younger fans who may have never heard of them.
"I love it when a friend says 'Check out this song', it's the only way I hear new music, I don't listen to the radio so much."
The other extreme in the live show is I'm Not Dead's bonus track Fingers, an ode to, er, self-love.
"There are plenty of songs out there about that topic," Pink admits. "I probably didn't need to add to the bunch, but I couldn't help myself."
Last year's hit single Stupid Girls, nominated for best female pop vocal performance at next month's Grammy awards, is a favourite in the show, attacking the vacuous culture of generic blonde "porno paparazzi girls".
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That song even works in the Justin crowd," Pink laughs. "I've seen actual stupid girls singing and laughing to Stupid Girls. That's the irony.
I like to make fun of people, but I also like to make fun of myself. I do that plenty."
While Pink dresses up as some of the Stupid Girls on stage, fans can also see her swinging from the ceiling during points in the show.
"They're the silks from Cirque du Soleil which I'm obsessed with because it's beautiful and dangerous; two of my favourite things."
The success of I'm Not Dead has taken the star by surprise, with many writing her off after 2003's Try This failed to match the sales of Missundaztood.
"It feels good," Pink says. "
Missundaztood sold a lot of records, but I didn't feel a lot of it. I kind of expected it in a weird way. There's so much of my blood, sweat and tears in this record I can be proud of it and be emotionally present and actually feel it."
The singer has also branched out into directing a video for new rock band Pretty Boys.
"It was so much fun," she says. "The thought of directing was so 'blah' to me then I did it and realised how much control you actually have and I love it.
"I didn't have to sit in makeup, I got to get there later than the artists did and I got to be creative and in control and watch it all happening. I'm a Virgo so it works perfectly to my anal, organisational mind."
As well as emails from David Crosby and using the Indigo Girls on Dear Mr President, Pink continues to tick off heroes on her "to meet" list.
She's recorded a secret song with Annie Lennox, which is planned to be a single later this year.
"I'm not talking about it, I don't know what she wants to say about it yet," Pink says. "I'll let her let the cat out of the bag. But it's very exciting. I love her. I've remixed Get the Party Started with (Eurythmics') Sweet Dreams for this tour and it's my favourite song to perform."
While Pink claims her idol Billy Joel is the only person to turn down writing a song with her, Joel insists he's never been asked.
"He doesn't remember me asking, but he can say anything he wants, I love him."
Pink took her father and her husband, motocross rider Carey Hart, to meet Joel at Madison Square Gardens last year.
"I'm in the audience and he (Joel) dedicated She's Always a Woman to Me to me. I almost fell over. That was the song I walked down the aisle to, it's a song my dad used to sing to me . . . Billy Joel can pretty much do anything by me.
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I looked at Carey and went 'See! See! Romance is possible, figure it out'. Those are the pinch-me moments where life doesn't suck."
I'm Not Dead (Sony BMG) out now. Pink, Rod Laver Arena, April 26-28 (sold out), May 15-16, $89.90. Tickets for May 16 on sale tomorrow from Ticketek.
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