Growing up in Jamaica, the Pentecostal church wasn't that fiery thing you might think. It was very British, very proper. Hymns. No dancing. Very quiet. Very fundamental.

It's ridiculous for a woman to say that she's not attracted to other women. That's completely false.

In the Seventies and Eighties we all had our fun, and now and then we went really too far. But, ultimately, it required a certain amount of clear thinking, a lot of hard work and good make-up to be accepted as a freak.

I never do what anyone else is doing. I could walk away from music and become a farmer or do some crochet. The worst thing in life for me is to do something I'm not happy doing.

I am an actress first, a singer second.

I never thought I was going to be a singer. That was an accident.

My father would have been made a bishop much earlier than he was had it not been for me and my image.