I see myself as no color. I can play the role of a man. I can paint my face white if I want to and play the role of white. I can play a green, I can be a purple. I think I have that kind of frame and that kind of attitude where I can play an animal. If you think in color, then everyone around you is going to think in color and that puts limits on the way you think. I don't think like that. A lot of the roles that I'm doing are roles that a man or a person of any color can do.

When you become such a strong personality in music, it's hard for people to accept you as a different character.

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

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 just go with the flow, I follow the yellow brick road. I don't know where it's going to lead me, but I follow it.

I have just as much woman in me as I have man. It's just a matter of channeling the energy into which way you use it.

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