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My grandparents on my father's side came to this country from the Caribbean with a strong connection to Africa and no shame about it.

I've been in Africa, America, moving around a lot. It's helped me to open up my mind. I was born in Jamaica; I've lived all my life there and got all I could from Jamaica. But I needed to be somewhere else to grow.

My work has been much more Caribbean and eclectic. I am interested in people, and where they come from happens to have fallen within an area of Africa.

I'm a member of the African diaspora: my parents left the Caribbean and came to London for a better life.

My family were from Jamaica.

I grew up in different parts of Africa. I grew up in Mozambique and places like that. I've been in South Africa many times.

I left Jamaica for a while, because as an artist I need to experience different things, see the world, have different energies. Living in one place is not good for me.

I feel no bond with South Africa, which is curious, since South Africa is where I was born.

My mother is Afro-Caribbean and my father is Caucasian-American, and I was born in Pennsylvania and moved to the Cayman Islands when I was about 2. So I grew up there with my mother, and it's really all I know. I grew up there until it was time to go to college, and that's when I moved back to America.

I come from a very big family from every economic background. Some of the streets I talk about, I've actually walked on because I have family from there. Jamaica has so many contradictions.