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I don't take the English press seriously at all because all they want is dirt... I hate them.

In the Seventies and Eighties we all had our fun, and now and then we went really too far. But, ultimately, it required a certain amount of clear thinking, a lot of hard work and good make-up to be accepted as a freak.

My father would have been made a bishop much earlier than he was had it not been for me and my image.

My dad's family were political and he was always a theatrical creature, whereas my mum is really musical and her father was the touring pianist with Nat King Cole. My family was an explosive mixture of politics, religion and music - no wonder I turned out how I did.

You can't expect your children to be perfect.

Rock n' roll can get quite overwhelming. You can get caught up in the cycle.

I'm too vain, one of my biggest sins, but it saved me; I can see what excess does.

I don't collaborate. You're born alone, you die alone, you get on stage alone.

I was the only black girl at my junior high school. I had an afro, a Jamaican accent, I looked really old.

I don't like people who hide things.

We're not perfect; we all have things that people might not like to see, and I like to show my faults.

To be honest, my life is not really as way-out and myth-loaded as people like to portray it.

I'm not a rock star; I'm a soft person.

I go feminine, I go masculine. I am both, actually. I think the male side is a bit stronger in me, and I have to tone it down sometimes. I'm not like a normal woman, that's for sure.

It was very painful combing my hair. My grand-uncle was a Pentecostal bishop, and he was very strict: our hair couldn't be permed or straightened. So I just cut it all off.

I am an actress first, a singer second.

I didn't think I had a voice at all, and I still think of myself as an interpreter of songs more than a singer. I thought it was too deep; people thought I was a man. I had a very strong Jamaican accent, too; the accent really messed me up for auditions.

If people think I'm angry, I don't want to burst anybody's bubble. I like sometimes for people to be afraid of me. But it's not really anger; it's discipline.

Music has its own depths, and I let it take me where it takes me, even if it means stripping all my clothes off.

I was skinny as a rail and had high cheekbones and a very interesting face - or so I was told.

I'm always rebelling. I don't think I'll ever stop.

If you want me to work with you, then come with an idea. Come with music.

I have been so copied by those people who have made fortunes that people assume I am that rich. But I did things for the excitement, the dare, the fact that it was new, not for the money. And too many times I was the first, not the beneficiary.

Be like Sasha Fierce. Be like Miley Cyrus. Be like Rihanna. Be like Lady Gaga. Be like Rita Ora and Sia. Be like Madonna. I cannot be like them, except to the extent that they are already being like me.

More having to do whatever anybody said you had to do. I couldn't really do anything on my own. But as I got older and then came to America and then Grace became my name, it somehow freed me. All of a sudden, I can be this other person.

I am not a diva: I am a Jones. 'Diva' is so overused. Diva, icons, the whole thing, legends... To be a diva, what is that?

Normally, I stay away from politics - unless I'm going to run for president.

Human beings should stick together. Honestly, if I see a red-haired person with blue eyes now, I say, 'Is your granny black?'

I wanted to be a 'jungle mom', where you're giving birth and getting up and doing things straightaway.

I don't wear jewelry, so I wear furs. I don't have diamonds.

They used to call me Firefly when I was a little girl, and I always tried to figure out why I was being called a firefly. I was really black, black, black from the sun. After being in Jamaica for 13 years, my eyes were really beady and white, and my skin was really black. I must have really looked like a fly. My eyes looked like lights, like stars.

I like dressing like a guy. I love it. When I was modeling I used to do pictures where I would dress up like my little brother. No makeup, and I looked like a boy.

I see myself as no color. I can play the role of a man. I can paint my face white if I want to and play the role of white. I can play a green, I can be a purple. I think I have that kind of frame and that kind of attitude where I can play an animal.

Mum was a high-jumper and qualified to go to the Olympics, but it got into the newspapers that she was married to my father, and the church put pressure on her to pull out of the Olympic team, saying, 'You can't be exposing all your legs.' That's how strong the influence of the church was on us all.

I was a go-go dancer, too. I called myself 'Grace Mendoza' to fool my parents.

Sometimes we'd have to climb a tree and pick our own whips to be disciplined with. When you had to pick your own whip, you knew you were in for it.

I like to experiment, and as an actress, I always thought it's good to be open about a lot of things.

Now when I enter a carriage, it almost empties. But there's always one brave enough to stay.

Use, don't abuse.

Models are there to look like mannequins, not like real people. Art and illusion are supposed to be fantasy.

Everyone has to make their own decisions. I still believe in that. You just have to be able to accept the consequences without complaining.

I like to isolate myself when I work because I end up losing my voice by doing interviews all day.

My mother was a champion high-jumper. My three brothers are basketball players. We've all been very athletic.

I would have rebelled against parental authority, no matter what. When I was 15, I started painting my face and making my own clothes.

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 never thought I was going to be a singer. That was an accident.

I just go with the flow, I follow the yellow brick road. I don't know where it's going to lead me, but I follow it.

I don't think 'pop' should mean that you had no talent.

I like to think of myself as a positive person. Otherwise I wouldn't have had a child.

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 loved all those classic figures from the '30s and '40s... Bette Davis, Joan Crawford, Humphrey Bogart, Rita Hayworth. They had such glamour and style. I loved the movies of those times too - so much attention paid to details, lights, clothing, the way the studios would develop talent.

When you become such a strong personality in music, it's hard for people to accept you as a different character.

I believe in individuality, that everybody is special, and it's up to them to find that quality and let it live.

I came from a very strict background, and didn't hear any Jamaican music when I was growing up.

My husband used to shout at my mother, 'What is wrong with your daughter? I'm married to a man.'

I never do what anyone else is doing. I could walk away from music and become a farmer or do some crochet. The worst thing in life for me is to do something I'm not happy doing.

I've turned down millions of dollars to go on reality TV. It's an absolute no-go.

I always thought that feminine, softer side was just too vulnerable to put out there, because then it's like you're opening up a door for everybody to come in, and you don't know who's going to come in that door.

Growing up in Jamaica, the Pentecostal church wasn't that fiery thing you might think. It was very British, very proper. Hymns. No dancing. Very quiet. Very fundamental.

When I perform on stage I become those male bullies, those dominators from my childhood. That's probably why it's so scary, because they scared me.

When I started modelling, I'd raise my arms and it was all muscle and all the other models had nothing. Really, everybody thought I was a man. I don't have to do much to have muscles. It's just genetic.

I don't like people who hide things. We're not perfect, we all have things that people might not like to see, and I like to show my faults.

I love women, but I've never had a relationship with a woman.

I'm not as impatient as I used to be. I used to hit people if I didn't like what they were saying. Just lash out. 'Bam - shut up! Hahahah!' I was terrible.

One creates oneself.

When I was modelling, I spent half my life staring at thousands of perfect reflections. It got to a stage where I was losing all sense of reality - so after I quit modelling, I took all the mirrors out of my house.

I've had more misrepresentations than I can handle, and people have told the wickedest lies about me. A lot of them have taken their frustrations out on me, and I don't like that because it can wound. Not necessarily me, but those around me. Journalists can be so bad.

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