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.

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

I never thought I was going to be a singer. That was an accident.

Even if I sing like a robot, it is still an emotional robot.

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

To be honest, my life is not really as way-out and myth-loaded as people like to portray it.

I think I'm doing a service to black women by portraying myself as a sex machine. I mean, what's wrong with being a sex machine, darling? Sex is large, sex is life, sex is as large as life, so it appeals to anyone that's living, or rather it should.