My American audiences are pretty mixed. I get all sorts of people, old and young. It's nice.

Actually, most of the people who go to see the contest are not from here,

I wanted to design a line based on Hollywood's Golden Era. I talked with Stephen Burrows and with Willi Smith and with one or two other people, but it just seems like such a hard field to break into. I need someone like Calvin Klein's manager to get behind me!

I sing to the realists; people who accept it like it is.

People really don't have to give you anything, so appreciate what people give you.

As a very small girl, I listened to Charlie Parker and loved him and Max Roach and people like that.