Quotes

There was this huge picture of me in the press. They had overdeveloped one photo and underdeveloped the other so I looked really dark skinned and really white. They said 'Yazz goes Daz'. 'Yazz is using chemicals to whiten her skin, it's another Michael Jackson'. That was wounding. From there I didn't trust anyone in the media. There were constant lies to sell the paper.

[on her pop success] When you imagine things in your life that you hope to achieve, you always see it in a controlled situation, that you're in control. It certainly wasn't like that. I had no control whatsoever, I was just this massive product. That was devastating when you realise you're a puppet.

My manager and my publisher were my husband [Jazz Summers]. In effect, my husband owned me and when we left each other, that's when I realised I'd been completely taken. I didn't have a lot of money at all. I was in a very dark place, thinking about my life and its true value.