Once I was a prisoner lost inside myself with the world surrounding me, wandering through the misery, but now I am free. Free to love, free to laugh, free to soar, free to shine, free to give.

The international music scene has grown so much, and America is sort of following that.

I know I can be diva-ish sometimes, but I have to be in control. The nature of my life, the nature of what I do, is divadom, it really is.

People are always asking, 'Is everything ok?' Look, I was not depressed, ok? I was just freaking exhausted.

My mother is Irish, my father is black and Venezuelan, and me - I'm tan, I guess.

I still get nervous sometimes before performing.

I do not think I reinvent myself. Wearing my hair differently or changing my style of dress is playing dress-up. I don't take it too seriously.