I think I had a lot of bad hair moments. In the early 80's just sometimes I wore purple lipstick or green lipstick.
I really like to look like a history book. I can look 1940s, I can look 1970s hippie-chic, or sometimes I'll pull that '80s Brooklyn hip-hop kid with the door-knocker earrings.
I did a lot of thrift and vintage. I would mix those pieces into some of the more inexpensive items from Express, Gap, Old Navy, and Clothestime.
My style icons were Gwen Stefani, when she was in No Doubt, and then Shirley Manson in Garbage.
My music definitely determines the direction we're gonna move in. It's like music, fashion, hair, makeup.
Music and fashion go hand in hand. I think music inspires all types of arts; it inspires life, emotion, mood, and all of those things are reflected in my fashion and my style. One doesn't go without the other.
The way I dress depends on how I feel. I never have to psych myself up. Usually it just feels like it works.
Fashion has always been my defense mechanism.
You will never be stylish if you don't take risks.
Even as a child I remember thinking, She can beat me, but she cannot beat my outfit.
I have two main hair people I work with. They're always with me. I'm like, 'I'm bored! I wanna change my hair!' That's the good thing about a weave. You can do whatever with it.
All my favorite artists and fashion icons and models are from the Nineties. Everybody was just so fearless.
More than anything, I like a jacket. You can do anything with a great jacket, the bigger the better. You can have any silhouette underneath. It gives you an attitude. It makes a gown look cool.
My jewelry's all fake - from Claire's. Or I get it from my mom's boutique in Barbados.
I think that fashion and music go hand-in-hand, and they always should. It's the artist's job to create imagery that matches the music. I think they're very intertwined.
I wear black diamonds instead of regular ones because I'm not flashy, just flossssy.
In public, I like real conservative clothes, something that's not too flashy. But onstage, I like 'em as flashy as you can get 'em.
Fashion is that thing that saved me from being sad.
I don't consider my own clothing to be outrageous. The truth is that people just don't have the same references that I do. To me it's very beautiful and it's art, and to them it's outrageous and crazy.
Prejudice is a disease. So is fashion. But I will not wear prejudice.
