I was skinny as a rail and had high cheekbones and a very interesting face - or so I was told.

Forget health clinics and gyms. Sex is the best cure. One good night of sex and your problems are gone.

I always thought that feminine, softer side was just too vulnerable to put out there, because then it's like you're opening up a door for everybody to come in, and you don't know who's going to come in that door.

I only started getting into furs when the designers I liked started making them.

My dad's family were political and he was always a theatrical creature, whereas my mum is really musical and her father was the touring pianist with Nat King Cole. My family was an explosive mixture of politics, religion and music - no wonder I turned out how I did.

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.

You can't expect your children to be perfect.