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

For some reason, I can inspire things that are in good taste, but then sometimes I can also inspire, like, wooooow. Some producers have this really sexual idea, and they're like, "Now I can do this, with her!" And I will just go: non, non, non. That's not me, it's you. You're projecting, man.

Prescription drugs can be even worse than illegal drugs. The only difference is the legality.

My husband used to shout at my mother, 'What is wrong with your daughter? I'm married to a man.'

In Jamaica we had the English way of schooling from the age of four, so when I got to America I was already a few years advanced because I started school at the age of three-and-a-half rather than six and my grades moved up accordingly. In America, they start you at school at six because the grades are different. I had to take a test and they didn't know what to do with me. It wasn't that I was any smarter; I had just started younger. All of a sudden I was jumped from eighth to tenth grade. They said I was very smart, but I was only smart in languages, really.

I don't think 'pop' should mean that you had no talent.

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