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" 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. "

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" I never do what anyone else is doing. I could walk away from music and become a farmer or do some crochet. The worst thing in life for me is to do something I'm not happy doing. "

" 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. "

" 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? "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

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

" People always like to make me seem taller than I am. "

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

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

" Human beings should stick together. Honestly, if I see a red-haired person with blue eyes now, I say, 'Is your granny black?' "

" I'm a man-eating machine. "

" Yelling between people in love is normal. "

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

" There is some Eighties music that is just timeless. The melodies, the lyrics... I called it church. Church in club. You can shout and dance. The best of the Eighties was club church. "

" 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 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. "

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

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

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

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" Use, don't abuse. "