I love my family, I'll do anything for them.

I've always tried to be positive. There's a lot going on.

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

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.

I often felt like I was walking around with this Scarlet Letter stitched to my chest from the way that people treated me.

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

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.