'Even though it`s hard working and what not, it`s fun. Ever since I was a little girl that`s what I wanted to do, so how can I complain in the end about the long hours and being tired?! It`s my dream and I`m living it thanks to, you know, all the fans and everything, I`m truly blessed and I`m really greatful'

'I'm so in the world of Nina Simone, Etta James, Billie Holiday and Eartha Kitt, one of the original bad girls.'

'RCA wanted a sweetheart kind of girl. Trust me, it's fights, always fights, just to be myself.'

'I don't know what it was, but as a child I just gravitated toward the blues; it was an instinct of mine. When I got older, this is the music that soothed me, …

'I cannot repay my fans for what they have done for me, they have given me so much love and that love has taken me to the number 1 position where I am today, t…

I had this rare privilege of being able to pursue in my adult life, what had been my childhood dream.

I'd just thank the people out there who have been with my up-and-down, weird-road, strange career and supported me and stuck with me all these years. I mean, t…