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" 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. "

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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?'. "

Grace Jones

Character

Say

You

" 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. "

" 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. "

Grace Jones

Being

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

" 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. "

Grace Jones

Music

Farmer

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

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

Grace Jones

Lot

Open

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

" Fear is fear of fear, I think. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" My mum was very glamorous, an incredible seamstress. She made up those Vogue, Givenchy and Yves St. Laurent patterns they used to sell. It was church couture, darling! Because my dad was a pastor, she could get away with more than other women. Her skirts were that bit tighter. "

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

" You can't expect your children to be perfect. "

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

Grace Jones

Things

People

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

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

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

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

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

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

Grace Jones

You

Want

" 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. "

" For me, a diva is like the great opera singer, the great film star - out of reach, in their own world, with a real gift for invention: attention-demanding performance artists with a flamboyant, compelling sense of their own importance so special and inimitable it verges on the alien. "

Grace Jones

Great

Gift

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

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