Let's start with the church. As you know, it's my background, it's a natural setting for me and it's definitely my roots.

And I was booked once to go on 'Ed Sullivan' and I got bumped and ran out the back door crying.

Soul is a constant. It's cultural. It's always going to be there, in different flavors and degrees.

Don't say Aretha is making a comeback, because I've never been away!

I love 'Anne of Green Gables.' I have for years. That's one of my favourite things. She's such a can-do kind of girl; that's why I'm crazy about her.

My faith always has been and always will be important to me.

And I've been hurt hurt bad. I might be just twenty-six, but I'm an old woman in disguise twenty-six goin'on sixty-five.