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1. black
2. grey
3. blue
4. red
5. brown
6. white

Whatever; bling always has something to hide.

Grace Jones

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  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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  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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  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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  You can’t expect your children to be perfect.

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  I believe in individuality, that everybody is special, and it’s up to them to find that quality and let it live.

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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.

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  I don’t think ‘pop’ should mean that you had no talent.

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

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

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  Models are there to look like mannequins, not like real people. Art and illusion are supposed to be fantasy.

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  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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  I don’t know what I’m going to be doing in two years or even in two weeks. I have to live for today.

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

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  I’m not as impatient as I used to be. I used to hit people if I didn’t like what they were saying. Just lash out. ‘Bam – shut up! Hahahah!’ I was terrible.

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