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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.

Grace Jones

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
I’ve lived long enough to feel the sway of corporations both legal and illegal. Corporations give you drugs and they prescribe and prescribe them and they can be worse for you. Whereas you have illegal drugs and that is all about moderation. You have to know your body.
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Body Enough Feeling Live Sway Worse Yourself
Whatever; bling always has something to hide.
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Bling Hide
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
That’s what they do in Argentina. Have a little wine and talk. Then have some coffee and talk. Then, go back to the wine.
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Coffee Talk Wine
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.
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Conservative Hairs Orthodox Ourselves Pain Struggle
Whatever one is creating, one has to stick to one’s guns and just do it. That is all. Put your foot down and do not let your work be compromised.
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Compromise Creation Oneself Weapon
I don’t like people who hide things.
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Hide Lying People
I don’t think ‘pop’ should mean that you had no talent.
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Myself Talent Thinking
Forget health clinics and gyms. Sex is the best cure. One good night of sex and your problems are gone.
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Cure Forget Health Problem Sex 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 didn’t think I had a voice at all, and I still think of myself as an interpreter of songs more than a singer. I thought it was too deep; people thought I was a man. I had a very strong Jamaican accent, too; the accent really messed me up for auditions.
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Audition Interpret People Thinking Voice
I’m still shocked every time I see snow. The first bit of snow each year… I stay up and I watch it. And then I go out and pick it up and eat it and move around in it.
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Myself Snow Stay Time
When I perform on stage I become those male bullies, those dominators from my childhood. That’s probably why it’s so scary, because they scared me.
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Childhood Myself Performance Scare Stage Trauma
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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Home Life Mirror Modeling Quit
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 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.

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