I got told so many times I needed a manager. For a long time I resisted, and I finally got one so I can pay my mortgage, and it helped me from becoming a homeless person.

I moved to Los Angeles to be with a man I loved.

People and their religions don't affect me.

Hip-hop and R&B is mostly what I listen to. I don't have a connection with punk rock - I just never had that experience.

Nobody considers a covers record an album.

If your parents gave you fire to play with when you were two, you'd be standing in fire by the time you were an adult.

I'm not a professional entertainer. I'm not Neil Diamond.