Being Around People Like Aretha Franklin And

I'm Not Crazy About Arenas Just Because I Can Sell Them Out. It Doesn't Do Anything For My Ego At All. I Want To Play Places Where People Don't Have To Sit In The Nosebleed Seats And Wonder What The Hell Is Going On.

I Feel So Blessed To Just Have Done What I Had Done. To Be Able To Just Use What God Has Given Me Is A Blessing. You Know, Never Mind The Grammys, Never Mind The Records, Never Mind All Of That. Just To Be Able To Sing.

My Mother Was The First Singer I Had Contact With. She Sang Constantly To Us Around The House, In Church.

Sometimes You Do Have A Good Time. But When It Gets To The Point Where You're Sitting In Your Home And You're Just Trying To Cover What You Don't Want People To Know. It's Painful. And Then You Want More Just So That You Don't Let Anybody See You Cry. Or Anybody To See We're Not Happy.

I Would Stay In My Room For Days, For Days At Times, Just Trying To Get It Together, To Know What My Next Phase Was Going To Be.