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.

So if anybody wants to get me something, get me 60 crabs - one for each year. I don't want no diamonds, I don't want no shoes, I don't want no party. I want some crabs.

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 have spoken to a friend of mine. Actually, she was my background singer and she lives in New Orleans. I gave her a home today. I told her to move in with me because everything she ever thought of is gone.