I'm still shocked every time I see snow. The first bit of snow each year... I stay up and I watch it. And then I go out and pick it up and eat it and move around in it.

Models are there to look like mannequins, not like real people. Art and illusion are supposed to be fantasy.

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.

To be honest, my life is not really as way-out and myth-loaded as people like to portray it.

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.

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

Some songs come from my head, some from my throat, but there will always be moments when it is an injection of the soul.