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.

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

I wear my furs all the time. I wear like three different ones in a day.

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

Rock n' roll can get quite overwhelming. You can get caught up in the cycle.

There will always be a replacement coming along very soon - a newer version, a crazier version, a louder version. So if you haven’t got a long-term plan, then you are merely a passing phase, the latest trend, yesterday’s event.

When you start in that [model] business the rules are imposed upon you, but when you stay in the business long enough the rules could be broken.