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

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

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

It's ridiculous for a woman to say that she's not attracted to other women. That's completely false.

I've had more misrepresentations than I can handle, and people have told the wickedest lies about me. A lot of them have taken their frustrations out on me, and I don't like that because it can wound. Not necessarily me, but those around me. Journalists can be so bad.

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.

Women and men grow up with both sexes. Our mothers and fathers mean a lot to us, so it's just a question of finding a balance between their influences. I've found mine. And it tends to be more on the male side. I mean male side the way we understand it in the West.