I still get nervous sometimes before performing.

I'm not vain, I'm insecure.

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.

I'm not for the villains, I'm only for the princesses. I mean it's fun to have Jafar [Aladdin cartoon villain] or whatever; I didn't even remember their names 'cause they're not important to me.

It's not easy that everything you do, everybody has to come in and critique it and give their opinion. Sometimes it does help me and sometimes it hurts me as a person. That's life. I have feelings.

Stay triumphant, keep on living. Stay on your toes, get off the ropes. Don't let 'em ever count you out.

It's hard to be someone that people talk about and write about, you know? They don't know me.