Being diabetic was not what I thought of as being normal, and I feared the stigma of having to take medicine and having people stick me with a needle.

One bad review can destroy me. It hurts so bad.

I wish that people could understand that people need to laugh. They need to sing. They need to create their own joie de vivre.

You have to put on more faces to pretend who you are.

I guess I wasn't sure how people would respond to it (her album). Then I thought to myself, 'If you have to be something you're not, then why do it at all?'

At the time, Auburn was not accepting any blacks in veterinarian medicine.