Now when I enter a carriage, it almost empties. But there's always one brave enough to stay.
I've lived long enough to feel the sway of corporations both legal and illegal. Corporations give you drugs and they prescribe and prescribe them and they can be worse for you. Whereas you have illegal drugs and that is all about moderation. You have to know your body.
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.
When I started modelling, I'd raise my arms and it was all muscle and all the other models had nothing. Really, everybody thought I was a man. I don't have to do much to have muscles. It's just genetic.
When you start in that [model] business the rules are imposed upon you, but when you stay in the business long enough the rules could be broken.
Growing up in Jamaica, the Pentecostal church wasn't that fiery thing you might think. It was very British, very proper. Hymns. No dancing. Very quiet. Very fundamental.
I came from a very strict background, and didn't hear any Jamaican music when I was growing up.
For some reason, I can inspire things that are in good taste, but then sometimes I can also inspire, like, wooooow. Some producers have this really sexual idea, and they're like, "Now I can do this, with her!" And I will just go: non, non, non. That's not me, it's you. You're projecting, man.
My father would have been made a bishop much earlier than he was had it not been for me and my image.
Some songs come from my head, some from my throat, but there will always be moments when it is an injection of the soul.
I've turned down millions of dollars to go on reality TV. It's an absolute no-go.
I like working until the morning, so I can see the day and then I like to go to sleep and then get up before sunset. But I love the energy of the morning.
There're lots of musicians in my family, too. My mother sings incredibly well. I've got to make a record with my mother's voice on it. She sings a lyric soprano. We do the opposite. I'm a baritone. She's a star singer in her church. She always does her solo.
My mother was a champion high-jumper. My three brothers are basketball players. We've all been very athletic.
I don't take the English press seriously at all because all they want is dirt... I hate them.
I would have rebelled against parental authority, no matter what. When I was 15, I started painting my face and making my own clothes.
My husband used to shout at my mother, 'What is wrong with your daughter? I'm married to a man.'
To be honest, my life is not really as way-out and myth-loaded as people like to portray it.
When you become such a strong personality in music, it's hard for people to accept you as a different character.
I like to isolate myself when I work because I end up losing my voice by doing interviews all day.
I wear my furs all the time. I wear like three different ones in a day.
I'm not a rock star, I'm a soft person.
I love women, but I've never had a relationship with a woman.
I've had more misrepresentations than I can handle, and people have told the wickedest lies about me. A lot of them have taken their frustrations out on me, and I don't like that because it can wound. Not necessarily me, but those around me. Journalists can be so bad.
I like dressing like a guy. I love it. When I was modeling I used to do pictures where I would dress up like my little brother. No makeup and I looked like a boy.
