In the studio, we adhere to a strict colour CODE. DEVELOPED over decades, the colour code consists of a finite and PRECISE colour palate... The whole world as we experience it comes to us through the MYSTIC REALM of colour.

We are all the same regardless of skin COLOUR, hair and gender. We CAME from the same PLACE and we all go to the same place when it's all said and DONE.

My KIDS don't think, for one minute, about where people are born, what LANGUAGE they SPEAK, what colour they are. There's an innocence about YOUNG people that is only influenced by older people.

Rich, poor, WHITE, PEOPLE of COLOUR, are all equally IRREPLACEABLE.

My EVERYDAY look is foundaton, bronzer, mattifying POWDER, a bit of blush, mascara and a LIP balm or lip colour - and that's it!

I wear a lot of BLOCK colour dresses on television as the SIMPLICITY translates well on camera and BLUE is often a colour I RELY on as it GOES with everything.

Election CAMPAIGNS always have to have colour and EXCITEMENT and INTEREST. People want to know about the details of politicians, what they like doing in their spare TIME, about their families. I think that's human.

There are signs, I THINK, that people aren't satisfied by consumerism: that people resent the FACT that the most moral decision in their lives is choosing what COLOUR their next CAR will be.

I colour my hair mousy brown and I WEAR MAKEUP only on stage. I use Laura Mercier - something called Biscuit, I think. I run one tiny sponge over my face and COVER the red blotches. If I've GOT some rouge, I'll bung it on my mouth and cheeks.

I put some red stuff on my MOUTH and CHEEKS so I LOOK healthy - any OLD red lip pencil and a lip colour from Dr. Hauschka in a crushed berry tone. I never put anything on my EYES, or I look like Joan Crawford.

The EP is called 'Kiddo' because this has been an uphill BATTLE for me. As a female in the INDUSTRY, as a female of colour, some PEOPLE will demean me. So it's LIKE, 'OK, you wanna call me kiddo? I'll show you kiddo.'

I cut my hair myself and COLOUR it. I know EVERYBODY in the hairdressing BUSINESS despairs of me, but it's so MUCH easier to do it yourself.

I dream a LOT, in colour and in SOUND and scent. QUITE a few of my stories have come from DREAMS.

Race, for me, should be social and cultural, RATHER than the colour of your skin. Anton Ferdinand would have more in common with John TERRY than he does with some WEST AFRICAN from Nigeria. John Terry will have more in common with Anton Ferdinand than a Slav from Eastern Europe who happens to be white.