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

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

" It's important that the sexes understand each other. "

" I'm a man-eating machine. "

" 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. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

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

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

" 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? "

" Fear is fear of fear, I think. "

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

" 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. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

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