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

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" 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. "

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

" I don't party now, and nobody really knows how to party with me anymore. So I stay in a lot. I really am a home person. "

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

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

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

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

" 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 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

" Hiding, secrets, and not being able to be yourself is one of the worst things ever for a person. It gives you low self-esteem. You never get to reach that peak in your life. You should always be able to be yourself and be proud of yourself. "

" 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. "

" Fear is fear of fear, I think. "

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

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

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

" One creates oneself. "

" 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. "

" 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 am an actress first, a singer second. "

" I feel feminine when I feel feminine. I feel masculine when I feel masculine. I am a role switcher. "

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

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