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

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" There is some Eighties music that is just timeless. The melodies, the lyrics... I called it church. Church in club. You can shout and dance. The best of the Eighties was club church. "

" 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. "

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

" 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 don't do oysters and red wine together. That's a no-no; you just don't do that. I love a nice white wine with oysters. "

" Some people are both genders. I think you just come out the way you come out, and you have to embrace it honestly. "

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

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

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

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

" People always like to make me seem taller than I am. "

" 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 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. "

" Gaga came to me, and I just could not find a soul. I come from church; maybe that has something to do with it. I like to get to the soul of a person. I just didn't feel a soul. "

" I like conflicts. I love competition. I like discovering things for myself. It's a childlike characteristic, actually. But that gives you a certain amount of power, and people are intimidated by that. "

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

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

" 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. "

" I don't like people who hide things. "

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" Religion has stayed with me even though I rebelled. "

" 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. "

" Use, don't abuse. "

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

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

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" This is what I would say to my pupil: 'You have become only your fame and left behind most of who you were. How are you going to deal with that? Will you lose that person forever? Have you become someone else without really knowing it? Do you always have to stay in character for people to like you? Do you know that you are in character?'. "

" 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. "

" The problem with the Dorises and the Nicki Minajes and Mileys is that they reach their goal very quickly. There is no long-term vision, and they forget that once you get into that whirlpool, then you have to fight the system that solidifies around you in order to keep being the outsider you claim you represent. "