I listen to gospel music.

My responsibility to God is to live. That's the gift he gave me. What I do with it is up to me.

You can hate me. You can go out there and say anything you want about me, But you will love me later because I told you the truth.

Once you climb to another level, you have to figure out how to sustain it.

I still get nervous about singing. I drink tea with honey and lemon before every concert. And I need to have scented candles in all of my hotel rooms.

Nowadays, with the state of the music business, for any artist, whether you're up-and-coming or you've been in it for awhile, you have to explore different revenues and different ways of expressing yourself.

I grew up watching MTV, when Journey was huge, when Pat Benatar had 'Love Is a Battlefield,' and my friends and I used to cut school to watch this woman in the video. We loved Pat Benatar.