There's not much longevity in music today. It's so easy to go in, put some pretentious lyrics on, with people saying the same thing over and over and over.

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.

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.