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

Grace Jones

When I started modelling, I’d raise my arms and it was all muscle and all the other models had nothing. Really, everybody thought I was a man. I don’t have to do much to have muscles. It’s just genetic.
GRACE JONES

Appearance Man Modeling Myself Start
In the Seventies and Eighties we all had our fun, and now and then we went really too far. But, ultimately, it required a certain amount of clear thinking, a lot of hard work and good make-up to be accepted as a freak.
GRACE JONES

Acceptance Freak Fun Hard Work Thinking
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.
GRACE JONES

Body Enough Feeling Live Sway Worse Yourself
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

Head Injection Moments Myself Soul Throat
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.’
GRACE JONES

Devour Instinct Life Primary Survive Yourself
I was skinny as a rail and had high cheekbones and a very interesting face – or so I was told.
GRACE JONES

Appearance Face Myself Skin
I like working until the morning, so I can see the day and then I like to go to sleep and then get up before sunset. But I love the energy of the morning.
GRACE JONES

Day Energy Morning Sleep
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.
GRACE JONES

Audition Interpret People Thinking Voice
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.
GRACE JONES

Conservative Hairs Orthodox Ourselves Pain Struggle
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.
GRACE JONES

Abuse Believe Death Indulge Myself Release
Now when I enter a carriage, it almost empties. But there’s always one brave enough to stay.
GRACE JONES

Brave Carriage Empty Enough Stay
It’s ridiculous for a woman to say that she’s not attracted to other women. That’s completely false.
GRACE JONES

Attraction Fake Woman
My husband used to shout at my mother, ‘What is wrong with your daughter? I’m married to a man.’
GRACE JONES

Husband Marriage Myself Sexuality
Prescription drugs can be even worse than illegal drugs. The only difference is the legality.
GRACE JONES

Drugs Legal Prescription
I’ve turned down millions of dollars to go on reality TV. It’s an absolute no-go.
GRACE JONES

Absolute Myself Reality
You can’t expect your children to be perfect.
GRACE JONES

Children Perfection Yourself

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