If I'm uncomfortable, you'd never know.

You can never go back to the first two albums in a career.

I can't record in the morning because I sound like Barry White.

I felt that putting my all into the relationship would have taken me away from my career. And I couldn't do that then.

I am fed up with men who use sex like a sleeping pill.

I learned that I had to believe in myself and not just to be comfortable with the opinions of others. I'm just more in control; I finalize everything.

Although becoming a singer was my plan A after first hearing Whitney Houston when I was 17, I started off with plan B by going to the teacher-training college that my dad went to. It was a slow coming of age.