My look is always glitzy for New Year's Eve, even if I am at home.

None of my family had anything to do with show business, my life was totally foreign to them.

All through my young life I wanted to sing, although nobody in my family knew it.

Well, for street clothes, a lot of what I wear is Jones New York. I am well-endowed in the derriere, and they can handle that.

My grandmother went to church, but my mother had been inundated with church and decided that when she had children, she would not push church or God on her children.

Well, I was in a band. I was the singer with a band called the Soul Satisfiers. I sang then quite a bit of Jazz and some Top 40 stuff.

That is what I liked about being on stage. I was comfortable there, and I could be myself with confidence.