You can be a boy, a girl, whatever you want. I have a lot of man in me.

In Jamaica we had the English way of schooling from the age of four, so when I got to America I was already a few years advanced because I started school at the age of three-and-a-half rather than six and my grades moved up accordingly. In America, they start you at school at six because the grades are different. I had to take a test and they didn't know what to do with me. It wasn't that I was any smarter; I had just started younger. All of a sudden I was jumped from eighth to tenth grade. They said I was very smart, but I was only smart in languages, really.

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

I never do what anyone else is doing. I could walk away from music and become a farmer or do some crochet. The worst thing in life for me is to do something I'm not happy doing.

When I perform on stage I become those male bullies, those dominators from my childhood. That's probably why it's so scary, because they scared me.

Prescription drugs can be even worse than illegal drugs. The only difference is the legality.

I was skinny as a rail and had high cheekbones and a very interesting face - or so I was told.