I'm not afraid of hard work. I like it! It's the other bit - the not working - I find more problematic. If I'm not busy, I just get antsy. I've been this way since I was a child. Sitting still is like torture for me.

If you want it, and you want to get it, then you've got to work hard for it, like Tupac was working hard for it.

Raising a daughter is hard work. There's no other way to describe it for me.

I knew I wanted to be a singer from the age of five. I've been lucky to be so single-minded - some of my friends still don't know what they want to do, and they're finding it hard. There are home videos of me singing and taking centre stage at family parties when I'm about three.

I learned the value of hard work by working hard.

Interestingly, people often boast that they are hard workers not understanding that hardworking means spending a lot of time and energy on work.