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

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

" I've changed. I'm not worried about what people think, because I think people think what they want to think anyway. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" There will always be a replacement coming along very soon - a newer version, a crazier version, a louder version. So if you haven't got a long-term plan, then you are merely a passing phase, the latest trend, yesterday's event. "

" 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. "

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

" One creates oneself. "

" I only move forwards, never backwards, darling. "

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

" It's the nature of man to give and receive - to be man and woman, all in one. "

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

" 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 had no childhood, really, so I imagined more than played, and that definitely led to my showbusiness image, the theatrics and the drama of my life. "

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

" You had to wear a hat to go to church. We weren't allowed to straighten our hair. We couldn't wear jewellery, nail polish, open backed shoes, skirts above the knee... trousers were forbidden because male apparel on a female was not godly. "