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

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" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" I came from a very strict background, and didn't hear any Jamaican music when I was growing up. "

" 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. "

" 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 don't like people who hide things. "

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

" 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. "

" One creates oneself. "

" I like dressing like a guy. I love it. When I was modeling I used to do pictures where I would dress up like my little brother. No makeup, and I looked like a boy. "

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

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

" I've had more misrepresentations than I can handle, and people have told the wickedest lies about me. A lot of them have taken their frustrations out on me, and I don't like that because it can wound. Not necessarily me, but those around me. Journalists can be so bad. "

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

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

" 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. "

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

" I don't take the English press seriously at all because all they want is dirt... I hate them. "

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

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

" Women and men grow up with both sexes. Our mothers and fathers mean a lot to us, so it's just a question of finding a balance between their influences. I've found mine. And it tends to be more on the male side. I mean male side the way we understand it in the West. "

" 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. "

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" When I was modelling, I spent half my life staring at thousands of perfect reflections. It got to a stage where I was losing all sense of reality - so after I quit modelling, I took all the mirrors out of my house. "