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

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

" More having to do whatever anybody said you had to do. I couldn't really do anything on my own. But as I got older and then came to America and then Grace became my name, it somehow freed me. All of a sudden, I can be this other person. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" My brother used to get beaten up all the time because he was very effeminate. "

" 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. "