All those songs reflect all the people that live within me.

My first crush was Barry Manilow. He performed on TV and I taped it. When no was around I'd kiss the screen.

I study once in a while. But my parents never pushed us into anything. Until we were 18, my mother would make us go with her to Kingdom Hall, and when we turned of age, she let us choose what we wanted to.

I had a pretty sexual imagination for a kid.

Self-expression is my goal, I want to be real with my feelings. Singing and dancing and all the joy that goes with performing come from my heart. If I can't feel it, I won't do it.

I'm convinced that we Black women possess a special indestructible strength that allows us to not only get down, but to get up, to get through, and to get over.

Fear is the one emotion that unleashed can destroy anything and anyone.