I'm 60, and I did 60-year-old women songs. I'm not trying to be the Hip-Hop Queen, although I am the original Hip Hop Queen.

There's not much longevity in music today. It's so easy to go in, put some pretentious lyrics on, with people saying the same thing over and over and over.

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 decided to always sing in the back with the chorus and never went up front because I had trouble performing.

A diva is someone who is a perfectionist, who does her best in her craft.

I'm very shy in a crowd.

All I do is stay in the kitchen and cook. I don't go there to party.