I don't take the English press seriously at all because all they want is dirt... I hate them.

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.

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

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

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

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

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