Basically, I started singing when I started talking. Music has just been my saving grace my whole life.

Pregnancy was probably the best and the hardest thing I'll ever go through. I know for a lot of women, it can be wonderful and relatively easy.

Nothing that's ever happened has taken away the optimist in me. It's always, "Whatever-let's go to Disneyland." Yes, I have my bleak, tortured-artist moments, but you have to hold on to what's positive.

The international music scene has grown so much, and America is sort of following that.

I've seen the real extreme diva behaviour and I don't think that's who I am.

It's in my genes. My mother was an opera singer. I'm clearly dramatic.

I still listen to older music a lot more than new singers. I listen to whatever's on the radio, but when I want to listen to something that moves me I put on a Stevie Wonder record.