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.

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

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

I didn't think I had a voice at all, and I still think of myself as an interpreter of songs more than a singer. I thought it was too deep; people thought I was a man. I had a very strong Jamaican accent, too; the accent really messed me up for auditions.

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

I was the only black girl at my junior high school. I had an afro, a Jamaican accent, I looked really old.

I like to think of myself as a positive person. Otherwise I wouldn't have had a child.