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My first concert makes me sound like a real old man. My very first concert was Jackie Wilson.

People say, 'Oh you're so good, and you're so young!' It's like, 'No. I'm good. Period!'

I went to a concert once when I was a little kid and ran up onstage, started dancing, started saying anything that came to my head. I was like a little vaudevillian.

Little by little, when I was doing auditions in New York, I discovered I was good. People there were enthusiastic.

I remember a concert for a visiting girls school, and that was the first time I ever sang - it was always about girls - that was the main thing. But somewhere along the line, it became a cathartic thing.

It sounds corny, but I consider myself an old-fashioned entertainer. I could have been in variety.

I think I've always had a 40-year-old body, and now that I'm actually there I'm like, 'Hey, pretty good, huh?'

I'm an old-fashioned girl.

When I was 3 or 4, I seemed to be bursting with music. They played Ella Fitzgerald, Count Basie, Frank Sinatra in the house, so I learned my vocabulary from song lyrics - I was literally singing before I was talking.

When I'm an old lady, I'm going to have my pick of the young men. They'll be like, 'She's Miss Mary Jane!' The young boys will think I'm a hot old lady.