"You can't talk about the Doll without talking about Arcadia. She has so much history there. Those are her stomping grounds. She will always come back home to Arcadia..."
coverage on Kathleen "the Doll" Grace's move to the Isle of Grimaldi, as in the Dailies
"I remember, when she was about 15, she used to Xerox copies of her work and hide them all over town : grocery stores, the post office, the library; I even found one of her pieces in the bathroom at a local Planned Parenthood. I had the biggest crush on her. She was well punk."
Joey Kiss, artist, member of the Lost Boys punk band, brother to Jimmy Kiss; boyfriend and father to Kathleen's child, Quetzy Lux
"It's good that she found Joey. He seems to me to know how to make her happiest."
Jimmy Kiss, photographer; ex-boyfriend
"She would always bitch and moan that no man could handle her mouth and they couldn't handle her thoughts. She was too cool for all of them. She was too sexy, too much of a conquest - no one could believe what would come out when she would speak."
Sodapop Cola, Kathleen's brother
"Growing up, I felt like a reawakened Hester Prynne. I was always so bad; badder than the rest of the girls, and even some of the boys!"
Kathleen, the Doll
"Every boyfriend she ever had tripped over himself to get to her. She could care less. She's kind of a head-in-the-clouds type...on her own planet, I guess."
Sodapop Cola, brother
"She told me that since she hit puberty, she's never had a guy that wanted to be her buddy, her pal. They always wanted something from her. Not her love - just her potential."
Ludo Ludovic, caretaker
"I got arrested on the first date I ever took her on, so.....I don't think that counts."
Joey Kiss
"I couldn't believe this girl wanted me. She's the most beautiful thing I've ever seen. I thought I'd die before letting her go."
Jimmy Kiss
"When I asked her to marry me, I took her to Monticello, where she grew up as a child, deep into the woods. I took her to a small plot that I purchased, with an advance from the record company. I told her that if she married me, someday I would build her a house here to recede in repose in her old age; and that I too would be there, with a hound dog, and a shotgun, on the front porch, by her side. The only thing she asked me was if we could have a baby. I told her, 'I don't even have to think twice about it,' and she took one look at this mug, thought about how beautiful our snotgobblers were gonna be and told me to put that ring on her finger."
Joey Kiss
"Joey's the only one who has seen me without fake eyelashes on and hasn't ran for the hills...so, I guess that's real love, right?"
Kathleen, the Doll
"All I know is - my little brother called me up and was screaming, 'She said yes! She said yes!' And I knew I'd lost her for good."
Jimmy Kiss
"What people don't know is : when Joey and I were 15 years old, we made a pact to be married. We signed it in Nag Champa incense, French kisses and clove cigarettes."
Kathleen, the Doll
"I might have known it, and I would come to break her heart...I killed the bird that made the breeze to blow."
Joey Kiss
"And I had done a hellish thing,
And it would work 'em woe:
For all averred, I had killed the bird
That made the breeze to blow.
Ah wretch! said they, the bird to slay,
That made the breeze to blow!
...
Down dropt the breeze, the sails dropt down,
'Twas sad as sad could be;
And we did speak only to break
The silence of the sea!
All in a hot and copper sky,
The bloody Sun, at noon,
Right up above the mast did stand,
No bigger than the Moon.
Day after day, day after day,
We stuck, nor breath nor motion;
As idle as a painted ship
Upon a painted ocean.
Water, water, every where,
And all the boards did shrink;
Water, water, every where,
Nor any drop to drink."
Samuel Coleridge Taylor, the Rime of the Ancient Mariner
"It was no fun, no fun at all being all alone and lonely. I was as sad as sad could be. Wait...I think that's already been said..."
Kathleen, the Doll
"Joey has an affinity to self-sabotage. He's a mad genius; he always has been. When he told me he dumped her...I just couldn't believe it. She loved him with her whole heart and he smashed it to smithereens."
Jimmy Kiss
"So, to get her back, he wrote her a love song. She had always asked him to write one, but he didn't think he had it in him. He's a punk, he feels he has to stay punk, you know? Gotta think of the spirit of Darby Crash and all that."
Jimmy Kiss
"He came over, played me a tune on his guitar and that was that; it was a wrap. You might as well call me Kathleen Grace Kiss."
Kathleen, the Doll
"I never thought that the girl I met as a teenager would eventually be the mother of my beautiful daughter. My beautiful daughter with the acid trip phone book name."
Joey Kiss, father of Quetzalith Lux Buuski Honeyblossum Grace-Kiss
"And we thought she would be blessed with 1,000 sons; but Quetzalith would be her mother's daughter."
Johnny Headlock, manager and wrangler
"Her name is very deep and very meaningful and if you want to know, you can lurk harder."
Kathleen Grace, the Doll, mother of 'Quetzy' Lux
"I nicknamed her Joey Jr.; because when she was born, we flipped a coin on who got to name her and needless to say, I lost the coin toss."
Joey Kiss
"As her godmother, I have seen my share of Doll antics. I personally would put up more shit from that Kathleen than anyone else. I don't know how Joey does it some days."
Angel Astazia, member of the Doll-founded band, the Prom Queens
"He was always in love with her. From the moment she crossed his path. You know, I should have known - when we were kids, we watched Peter Pan, every day, over and over again. And he would only smile when Tinkerbell was on the screen. I didn't think about it 'till I was older, but he's a total dope for blondes. I just didn't know he'd be a dope for my blonde."
Jimmy Kiss, Joey Kiss' older brother
"Where she ends, he begins. They are very much soul mates and they are very much in love."
Ludo Ludovic, caretaker and longtime friend of the Doll
"He plays his guitar too loud and wakes the baby; he wears his boots in the house and snores like a grizzly bear, but that's my Joey." Kathleen, the Doll"She really can do no wrong in my book."
Joey Kiss
"He has a book? That's my thing!"
Kathleen, the Doll
"She had her baby and faded totally from the parties, the gigs and the shows. And it's okay. We know she's home breastfeeding and changing diapers and shaking the rattle."
Freddy the Freeloader, original Lost Boy
"Quetzy has tamed her. Not Jimmy; not Joey."
Headlock, manager and wrangler
"She's really a simple creature - she likes to write, drink, eat, shit and bone. She's always home. She's uncool."
Jimmy Kiss, ex-boyfriend
"I like living with her because she always has a car for me to borrow."
Sodapop Cola
"Sodapop used up all the daytime minutes, eats all of my candy and hogs the remote, but he's family."
Kathleen, the Doll
"Sodapop gets a bad rep in the press, but he's not all that bad. He just loves to gossip. And getting his picture taken. And seeing his name in the papers. He's famous for free."
Jimmy Kiss
"He sure has loose lips, but that's my old lady's brother. I can't really shut him up, but I can punch him in the schnoz if he steps out of line."
Joey Kiss
"Sometimes I can't believe those two are related. Miss I-Work-In-My-Sleep and her brother, Mr. I-Ain't-Got-A-Job - the apple doesn't fall far from the tree in that family, let me tell you."
Headlock, manager and wrangler
"She's a machine : Kathleen has taken over the world of magazines, books, fashion, film, television, radio and now she is honing her musical grip on the industry, as she has in so many others. 'Wake Up or We Break Up' is just the beginning, I'm telling you..."
Sodapop Cola
"She asked for a guitar for her birthday and I knew it was all downhill from there."
Joey Kiss
"I recorded 'Wake Up or We Break Up' with no help; no vocal coaching and no guitar lessons, thank you very much."
the Doll
"She wasn't really good at first - oh, who am I kidding? She still isn't very good by any rock 'n' roll standards, but she sure looks pretty as hell holding that guitar."
Jimmy Kiss, ex-boyfriend
"Can I play? No. Can I wail? Yes."
Kathleen Grace, the Doll
"She found three of the scariest girls in Arcadia, Cielo and Grimaldi and formed the Prom Queens. These girls are the stuff of nightmares - mothers should lock up their sons!"
Angel Astazia
"Her voice sounds like she chainsmoked a pack of Lucky Strikes and guzzled Jack Daniels before stepping behind the microphone, but I'm just sure angels join in when she sings."
Loyal, Lost Boy
"I think people like to watch her wiggle across the stage and writhe on the ground with her guitar. I think she has a throaty, sexy voice full of passion and grit; and it makes my pants tight. That's just my two cents on the esoteric doctrine she preaches and the popularity in her band."
Jimmy Kiss
“She came into my office and asked if she could have a record deal. I didn't know if she was lit or joking or what. I don't even think she's had proper guitar lessons. But I'm no fool - I signed her on the spot."
Sammy "Third Degree" Burns, owner of Hep Parade Magazine; co-owner of Arcadian and Cielan Riot Houses
"I don't know how to top myself - as an international fame monger and media whore; why, I'm so psycho, I'd do just about anything! Just challenge me!"
Kathleen Grace, the Doll
"She is the greatest archetype. She cannot be duplicated and is ever-changing. There has never been anyone like her before and there will not be another hence..."
coverage of her labor and birth of Quetzy, as reported in the Dailies"
I am not your conquest; I am not your piece of meat. I am not your God; I am me."
Kathleen, the Doll
