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

I don't like people who hide things.

Disco existed before we were all born and will exist afterwards. It is a ritual - it is a celebration - and it is the same kind of music that we call disco or rock'n'roll or a whole list of names that we can call it. Call it what you will, nothing will change the fact that certain kinds of music will make you want to celebrate or party.

My mother was a champion high-jumper. My three brothers are basketball players. We've all been very athletic.

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

Growing up in Jamaica, the Pentecostal church wasn't that fiery thing you might think. It was very British, very proper. Hymns. No dancing. Very quiet. Very fundamental.

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