My Mom Was The Diana Ross Of

I Have The Ability To Sing With Emotion And Feeling, But If You Say I Sound Like Billie Holiday, That's Cool. Let's Look At Who Billie Was: She Was This Person, This Singer, This Beautiful Diva Who Could Move The Audience With The Slightest Gesture Of Her Hand.

I Take The Same Approach In All Genres Of Art, Across The Board. It's Intuitive.

We Were All Born, And We All Came To The Music Business With Everything We Had. Some Of Us Just Don't Get A Chance. Now There's A Lot Of Other People Like Myself, Indeed, Who Are Getting Heard Worldwide. That Gives Other Artists A Chance.

I Just Keep Going. When The Water's Too Still, I Start Splashing Around And Things Jump Out Of The Water.

I Don't Feel Like I Need To Preach To The World Or Nothing Like That. I Just Feel Like I Share What I Say, And If Listeners Get It, They Get It. And I Never Underestimate The Audience's Ability To Feel Me.