I was the only black girl at my junior high school. I had an afro, a Jamaican accent, I looked really old.
It's important that the sexes understand each other.
I came from a very strict background, and didn't hear any Jamaican music when I was growing up.
Human beings should stick together. Honestly, if I see a red-haired person with blue eyes now, I say, 'Is your granny black?'
I believe in individuality, that everybody is special, and it's up to them to find that quality and let it live.
You can't expect your children to be perfect.
I am not a diva I am a Jones. 'Diva' is so overused. Diva, icons, the whole thing, legends... To be a diva, what is that?
You don't do oysters and red wine together. That's a no-no; you just don't do that. I love a nice white wine with oysters.
I am an actress first, a singer second.
My husband used to shout at my mother, 'What is wrong with your daughter? I'm married to a man.'
I never thought I was going to be a singer. That was an accident.
I feel feminine when I feel feminine. I feel masculine when I feel masculine. I am a role switcher.
I don't party now, and nobody really knows how to party with me anymore. So I stay in a lot. I really am a home person.
Some people are both genders. I think you just come out the way you come out, and you have to embrace it honestly.
I don't like people who hide things.
My father would have been made a bishop much earlier than he was had it not been for me and my image.
Rock n' roll can get quite overwhelming. You can get caught up in the cycle.
I'm too vain, one of my biggest sins, but it saved me; I can see what excess does.
I don't collaborate. You're born alone, you die alone, you get on stage alone.
We're not perfect; we all have things that people might not like to see, and I like to show my faults.
To be honest, my life is not really as way-out and myth-loaded as people like to portray it.
I'm not a rock star; I'm a soft person.
Music has its own depths, and I let it take me where it takes me, even if it means stripping all my clothes off.
I was skinny as a rail and had high cheekbones and a very interesting face - or so I was told.
I'm always rebelling. I don't think I'll ever stop.
If you want me to work with you, then come with an idea. Come with music.
