Sasha played dress up in some of Agnes’ old rags for the November issue of Gotham magazine. Ohhh la la! The different-ness is killing me so I am going to pass the dutchie to Concrete Loop for more flicks! Article excerpts after the jump.

On Papa Knowles

“My father and I had a tougher time years ago,” she says, “but there’s been a gradual transition, a power struggle. I’ve never had a problem standing up to my father when it’s come to my business. He taught me the importance of business. My mother is very creative and designs clothes, and she taught me to express myself. So I had a great balance of those two opposite sides. But it’s difficult because I started out young. And when I was 21, I was still the baby to him. So we’d fight. But after a few years of that, it got better and now we have rules. Like, when we’re having family functions like Christmas or birthdays, we’re not allowed to talk about business.”

On portraying Etta James

“Etta James had a darker side,” she says. “And with the profanity I use in the movie, and being addicted to heroin, and having a scene where I’m strung out, I’m sure audiences are gonna be extremely shocked. But I’m an artist and I’m playing a character. When I’m doing a movie, Beyoncé is nowhere on film. “One thing playing Etta James taught me is to be fearless,” she adds. “And it taught me I can’t be afraid or ashamed of the things that I like, even if it’s shocking to people. I know it’s time to take a chance. I don’t have a need to do another record to make more money or become a bigger superstar.”

On her marriage

Beyoncé is notoriously tight-lipped about Jay-Z, whom she dated “secretly” for six years before “secretly” marrying him in April. “This is like my first relationship,” she says. “I’m very private and, of course, I don’t talk about it, but I’m very, very happy. That’s all I’ll say. We were together for a really long time before we got married; we were in no rush. We don’t have a normal relationship because of our careers. But celebrity or not, you go through the exact same things. We’re not perfect.”