So if diva means giving your best, then yes, I guess I am a diva.

I don't tweet, Twitter, email, Facebook, look book, no kind of book. I have a land line phone at my home - that's the only phone I have. If my phone rang every day like everyone else around me, I would lose my mind.

Once I stopped dwelling on what I didn't have, on what I thought I was going to lose, and began to give freely, everything opened up for me. Everything began to flow into my life.

I was a shy kid with a broom handle that I pretended was a microphone.

So if diva means giving your best, then yes, I guess I am a diva.

Being honored at Berklee College of Music; I got a doctorate. I am Doctor Patti.

I keep showing decade after decade that I am a real performer.