I'm not a bourgeois person, never will be.

I'm not a braggart, but when I was a little girl people used to come from all over Hollywood to hear me sing.

A few years ago, I thought, I'll never make it. I started to go to the doctor to help me lose weight.

Now I can stand up on the stage again like I used to after five years of sitting down while I sang.

The only time that I am really truly happy—when I feel at my best—is when I'm on the stage.

I'm not a bourgeois person, never will be.

When I'm performing for the people, I am me, then. I am that little girl who, when she was five years old, used to sing at church. Or I'm that 15-year-old young lady who wanted to be grown and wanted to sing and couldn't wait to be smokin' a cigarette, you know?