I do six shows a week. Sometimes my voice gets tired, but I love it.

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

Will people think I've been dropped? Oh God, you don't want people to think that. No one will want to touch you if they think you got dropped.

My ideal kinda guy, if I was really gonna go there even though he's married, is Mark Wahlberg. To me he's a little black and white, the kinda guy who would understand if I pull my weave out.

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.

It sometimes makes me feel sexy to wear something revealing. But I have gone too far. I have to be honest about that.

I'll probably be 80 years old and still performing. Music is like fashion, it changes. But some things will always be the same.