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I would love to continue working behind the scenes in music - to produce and manage up-and-coming musical talent would be a dream!

I would sit on the street corners in my hometown of Indianola, Mississippi, and I would play. And, generally, I would start playing gospel songs.

I would sing anywhere they would invite me. That's how I made my first pesos. I used to sing at beauty pageants, local events of every sort.

If I was rich enough, I would love to launch my own record label. I would love to try and give all my musically talented friends a start in the industry.

My brother Art was a doo-wopper. He had a group that sat out on a park bench in New Orleans and sang harmonies at night, and they'd go around and win all the talent shows and get all the girls, you know.

I'd love to do something where I played a musician.

I was in a music class when I was little, and they discovered I had a talent and could sing. From there, I joined this singing troupe in California, and I would just go sing at festivals in this girl group and perform as much as I could.

I was scouted by this talent scout back home. She found me because I used to make my dad these CDs of my music, and I think that some guy that he worked with had a niece who worked with the talent scout, or something really drawn out, kind of word-of-mouth.

It used to be that Nashville would work to develop promising artists.

And later, if I ever felt that I was getting swept away by the craziness of being in a band, well, I'd go back to Virginia.