You can't just sit there and wait for people to give you that golden dream. You've got to get out there and make it happen for yourself.

My father worked hard, but we were still very poor; and I didn't want anybody arguing about money, so I became the entertainer, the one who wanted everyone to be happy. I didn't want there to be any problems.

A reporter once asked me if I ever cried. I wonder if people think I'm just as hard as a rock and have no emotions at all.

I jog and I roller-skate. I dance - that's the best exercise.

I look forward to the future - and going into the studio to make new music.

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.

Being a parent is very important to me.