Everybody goes through the same thing; it doesn't matter what color you are. And Joss Stone just happened to wake up one morning with all this soul that had to come out.

What has happened is, not only has CEIFA not really worked as far as the formula goes, but it hasn't been funded to the levels that were promised in it. Consequently, the state aid has remained pretty much flat for the last three or four years.

So if diva means giving your best, then yes, I guess I am a diva.

I can't do some of the songs that younger girls like Mary J. Blige and Beyonce are doing. They have their own place and I have my own place.

A diva is someone who is a perfectionist, who does her best in her craft.

I've been shut down, run down, talked about, dogged out, but that never stopped me from the being the true me that's here and will be here.