My fans have written me such kind emails. My management at Daptone helped me heal, too. I'm in a good place.

I'm lookin' at these Disney characters, these young girls coming out looking like, little whores.

I'm going to dress a little different. Those frilly dresses I used to wear on stage, that was the old me.

I've got these five-pound weights and a treadmill in the living room. I work out the other parts that have affected my voice: my diaphragm - doctors took mine out in surgery - and my lungs. I've got to build back my legs, too, so I can run across that stage. I've got a lot to do, but I'm going to get out, sing songs and tell the stories.

I never took any kind of vocal lessons or teachings of how to - I never even took piano lessons. And a voice just came to me and said, go play the piano in the church.

Record designers marvel on that stuff. They go back and look at old covers, then make new ones.

I miss my hair, but I feel like going out there with some fake braids wouldn't be right. I want to be the most genuine performer I can be.