In dance you use every party of your body except your voice. I wanted to start acting because I wanted to use my voice.

In Caribbean there is no middle class: you're either rich or you're poor. And the ladder to success is not really a ladder, it's a chain; once you reach a certain level, you can't go back and you can only keep going forward.

Every time an adult is going to write something for a teenager and you don't have, physically, a person who is that, you are always going to be a little off.

The biggest battle that I have is being a woman in the world. That takes center stage for me.

I get along very well with animals and children. I dig them, I get them.

Music is a very big participant in everything I do, from the moment I wake up to the moment I go to bed.

A child speaks more sense than an adult half of the time.