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Some songs come from my head, some from my throat, but there will always be moments when it is an injection of the soul.

Grace Jones

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.
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Crazy Passing Planning Replacement Version
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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Impatience Myself People Terrible
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
Now when I enter a carriage, it almost empties. But there’s always one brave enough to stay.
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Brave Carriage Empty Enough Stay
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
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
If people think I’m angry, I don’t want to burst anybody’s bubble. I like sometimes for people to be afraid of me. But it’s not really anger; it’s discipline.
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Angry Burst Discipline People Thinking Trouble
I believe in having certain releases, certain outlets. One has to indulge. If you don’t indulge, you don’t live -might as well be dead. I believe in indulging as a user and not as an abuser.
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Abuse Believe Death Indulge Myself Release
Most performers take themselves too seriously. They forget there is a difference between the characters they play on the screen or stage and themselves, but the public doesn’t forget there is a difference. They see how silly it is if you try to be the same person all the time.
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Difference Forget Performance Person Serious Time Yourself
You can be a boy, a girl, whatever you want. I have a lot of man in me.
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Energy Man Philosophy Sexuality Yourself
I wear my furs all the time. I wear like three different ones in a day.
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Different Oneself Time
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
I was skinny as a rail and had high cheekbones and a very interesting face – or so I was told.
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Appearance Face Myself Skin
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 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
It’s ridiculous for a woman to say that she’s not attracted to other women. That’s completely false.
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Attraction Fake Woman

Some songs come from my head, some from my throat, but there will always be moments when it is an injection of the soul.

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