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

Anger is like the blade of a butcher knife - very difficult to hold on to for long without harming yourself.

I just sing the stuff that makes me smile, makes me feel like I didn't sell myself out.

I have to go 150 percent or nothing at all.

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.

I never thought I would be singing for the world.

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