God allows circumstances to build us up. God has got our back.
Experimenting with drugs, drinking, doing this just enough to be accepted as one of the crowd, but I hated drugs, and I hated the taste of alcohol!
I have been nervous before, but I have never had stage fright.
Even as a very small child I used to talk to God.
One of the high points of my career was winning the Grammy for 'I Will Survive.'
I grew up without a father, and my mother grew up without a father and her mother grew up without a father. So we have this long heritage of growing up without fathers.