One of the high points of my career was winning the Grammy for 'I Will Survive.'

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

I still love a variety of kinds of music.

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

My audience is often hands-up, standing and cheering and on tables and all of that kind of things.

The respect that you should have for one another-I never knew any of that. So I suffered.

At first I was afraid, I was petrified, kept thinking I could never live without you by my side. But then I spent so many nights thinking how you did me wrong, and I grew strong.