Most performers take themselves too seriously. They forget there is a difference between the characters they play on the screen or stage and themselves, but the public doesn't forget there is a difference. They see how silly it is if you try to be the same person all the time.

Models are there to look like mannequins, not like real people. Art and illusion are supposed to be fantasy.

Everyone has to make their own decisions. I still believe in that. You just have to be able to accept the consequences without complaining.

I don't collaborate. You're born alone, you die alone, you get on stage alone.

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

I'm not a rock star, I'm a soft person.

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.