I like to isolate myself when I work because I end up losing my voice by doing interviews all day.

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

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.

Now when I enter a carriage, it almost empties. But there's always one brave enough to stay.

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

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.

We're not perfect; we all have things that people might not like to see, and I like to show my faults.