TT: I haven't got soul.
Brown: Sure you have, you just don't know it. Everyone's got it, you just gotta release, let it go.
TT: Are you a soul star or disco diva?
Brown: I don't look at me as being a star. This might sound a bit morbid, but stars come out in the sky. Clouds can cover them and sometimes you don't see them for a long time and they disappear. I don't want to be like that. I don't want to be thought of as a diva either, I don't even like the word.
TT: Why not?
Brown: Diva is a dead icon that you resurrect by giving them the status of what they were and what they were recognized for before, rather than what they are today.
TT: I want to disagree with you; diva means to me goddess of song.
Brown: I'll be whatever you want me to be, if that's what you want me to be I'll be that, but for me, I'm just plain Jocelyn. That girl, woman, you met from South Carolina.
TT: And what about your work?
Brown: Well no one can do it for me, I've got to sing and I've got to answer these questions, that's my job.
TT: But you like it yeah?
Brown: It's the bomb, I like knowing that I'm being asked to perform and deliver how I feel.
TT: Have you been chosen?
Brown: I didn't anticipate being a known vocalist. I did a song I'm Caught Up in a One Night Love Affair. I went to the studio and did the demo and suddenly I was on the radio. That's how it happened, I didn't plan it. It was like waaaaah! It wasnt like Jocelyn Brown stepped out of there. I just wanted to reveal the creativity of the song, shape it and deliver it.
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