Honestly, I just want to have a good time, listen to great singers and great music, and just use my instincts, as usual.

You used to have to sing and convey emotion, and now, well, technically you can do anything with technology. It sucks for music today, but that's why that old music feels so good to me.

I don't want to be just a straight pop singer. I'm a vocalist and that's what I want to be seen as in the long run.

I have a lot of aggression in me that needs to come out in a not-very-precise or articulate way.

Let's get glam. It's all in the way you move. Let's get glam. Don't let the clothes wear you. Let's get glam. It's all an attitude.

Etta James is my all-time favorite singer. I've said it in every interview, in every story, in every on- and off-camera question. That music was always such a huge escape for me, even from a young age.

I was known as the little girl with the big voice.