I believe in individuality, that everybody is special, and it's up to them to find that quality and let it live.

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.

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

My dad's family were political and he was always a theatrical creature, whereas my mum is really musical and her father was the touring pianist with Nat King Cole. My family was an explosive mixture of politics, religion and music - no wonder I turned out how I did.

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

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.

Now when I enter a carriage, it almost empties. But there's always one brave enough to stay.