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I think people must wonder how a white girl like me became a blues guitarist. The truth is, I never intended to do this for a living.

'Miss Jackson' is about something that actually happened to me when I was younger. I hadn't really talked about it, and I felt that if I didn't, I would keep thinking about it; it would drive me crazy.

At a party in L.A., I met this middle-aged gentleman who I was talking to for ages when I asked, 'So, what do you do?' Turns out I was speaking to legendary music producer Quincy Jones, who worked on Michael Jackson's hits. And there was little old me rattling on - I was so embarrassed.

I remember I was like five or six years old; I played the devil. That was my first role.

I was the first African-American woman to play Maggie in 'Cat on a Hot Tin Roof.' It was at the Virginia State Theatre, and we turned Richmond upside down.

The Devil, can sometimes do a very gentlemanly thing.

Some people said my acting was a cross between Euell Gibbons, Rodney Allen Rippy and Sheena, Queen of the Jungle.

That's why I called my record Devil Without a Cause - I'm a white boy who's so sick of hearing that white kids are going to steal rap.

I think I'm the only actor in the history of film who got to slap Sam Jackson on the face and butt and lived to tell about it.

When I began my career, I was constantly referred to as the kid who could play the blues.