I know that my fans want to know who I'm sleeping with, but it's really none of their business.

It's easier for me to sit with the producers and the writers and I give them my feelings and my thoughts and what I think I feel like singing about and then they go away and write it.

I have a lust for life.

If I have someone who believes in me, I can move mountains.

I'm not really a songwriter - I'm an interpreter. So in a sense I am an actress first and foremost. I act out the songs, and I lead with my heart.

I don't like to have too many makeup artists around, so I always like to do my own.

I was brought up in this part of Detroit that they used to call the ghetto.