Music is everything to me. I wake up and go to bed with it. I listen to all genres, depending on my mood.

My goal is to be a household name, and when I do that, I want to help other girls become models, and maybe even launch a fashion line with my mom, like Beyonce did with her mother. My mom has such a good eye, and it's always been a dream of hers.

I want to do television, film, music and designing. I want to do it all!

I don't want to be known as the black model. I want to be recognized as Chanel Iman, a personality.

Five years from now I see myself still working hard to get where I want to be, because I think big.

It usually takes an ethnic girl - I'm not saying black, I'm saying ethnic, let's make that clear - twice as long. We've gotta work extra-hard to stay in the game and stay with the girls who do well but aren't ethnic.

That’s my next journey - to be a great actress.