Some Songs Come From My

Women And Men Grow Up With Both Sexes. Our Mothers And Fathers Mean A Lot To Us, So It's Just A Question Of Finding A Balance Between Their Influences. I've Found Mine. And It Tends To Be More On The Male Side. I Mean Male Side The Way We Understand It In The West.

I Believe In Individuality, That Everybody Is Special, And It's Up To Them To Find That Quality And Let It Live.

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.

Most Performers Take Themselves Too Seriously. They Forget There Is A Difference Between The Characters They Play On The Screen Or Stage And Themselves, But The Public Doesn't Forget There Is A Difference. They See How Silly It Is If You Try To Be The Same Person All The Time.

I Think It's Somewhere In My Head, In My Travel Space, And It Just Comes Out. It's A Visual Thing That Happens Unintentionally. People Will Tell Me, "you Do Realize You Just Spoke With That Accent, Right?" And I'll Go, "oh, Did I?" So It's Not Something I Think About. As We Talk, I Have A Visual About My Speech And It Just Comes Out Like That. If That Makes Any Sense!