Sad songs seem to work for me, but I don't want to be redundant; I want to add a little flavor.

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

Cause you mean the world to me, you are my everything; I swear the only thing that matters, matters to me.

I'm not a diva. I'm a tadpole trying to be a frog.

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.

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

I had a 23 per cent blockage in my micro-arteries. At first the doctors thought I needed a heart transplant, then they said I have microvascular angina, which means I will be on medication for the rest of my life.