I fight manic-depression, and I have been able to live battling that sadness that I get sometimes.

I won't sing if I don't feel it, so there's always so much sadness and so much sentiment behind it all.

I loved singing rock-and-roll, jazz, anything on radio, anything commercial. I was able to do anything, but I didn't know what direction to go in.

Many women, sometime in their life, are going to get to a point where they have to admit infidelity.

Women see me as a figure they can respect. They know I've been through a lot. I'm not going to let no man put me under.

There's so much that I can give as a human being - and I know that.