I've turned down millions of dollars to go on reality TV. It's an absolute no-go.

I came from a very strict background, and didn't hear any Jamaican music when I was growing up.

It was very painful combing my hair. My grand-uncle was a Pentecostal bishop, and he was very strict: our hair couldn't be permed or straightened. So I just cut it all off.

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

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

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