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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.

Grace Jones

Even if I sing like a robot, it is still an emotional robot.
GRACE JONES

Emotional Myself Robot Sing
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.
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Balance Father Finding Growth Man Understand Woman
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.
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Dress Make Up Modeling Myself
You can’t expect your children to be perfect.
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Children Perfection Yourself
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.
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Feminine Myself Thinking Woman
I don’t collaborate. You’re born alone, you die alone, you get on stage alone.
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Alone Born Collaborate Stage Yourself
Survival is my primary instinct…it’s out of my control. It’s stronger than me. It’s an outside force, a voice that says ‘do this for your life or it will devour you.’
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Devour Instinct Life Primary Survive Yourself
There’re lots of musicians in my family, too. My mother sings incredibly well. I’ve got to make a record with my mother’s voice on it. She sings a lyric soprano. We do the opposite. I’m a baritone. She’s a star singer in her church. She always does her solo.
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Mom Musician Myself Sing Voice
I don’t think ‘pop’ should mean that you had no talent.
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Myself Talent Thinking
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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Clothes Face Myself Painting Parental
We’re not perfect; we all have things that people might not like to see, and I like to show my faults.
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Mistake Myself People Perfection
When you become such a strong personality in music, it’s hard for people to accept you as a different character.
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Character Different Hard Personality Strong Yourself
I am an actress first, a singer second.
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Actress Myself Singing
This is depression, it comes when your blocking. This is expression it comes when you’re rocking
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Depression Rock Yourself
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.
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Feminine Myself Opening Thinking Vulnerable
Disco was like the celebration of music through dance and my God! When you heard the music sometimes it was like, if you don’t get up and dance, you aren’t human!
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Celebration Dance God Human Music

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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