I don’t collaborate. You’re born alone, you die alone, you get on stage alone.
GRACE JONESI don’t collaborate. You’re born alone, you die alone, you get on stage alone.
GRACE JONESThere’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.
GRACE JONESI 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.
GRACE JONESI would have rebelled against parental authority, no matter what. When I was 15, I started painting my face and making my own clothes.
GRACE JONESI don’t take the English press seriously at all because all they want is dirt. I hate them.
GRACE JONESThat’s what they do in Argentina. Have a little wine and talk. Then have some coffee and talk. Then, go back to the wine.
GRACE JONESI believe in individuality, that everybody is special, and it’s up to them to find that quality and let it live.
GRACE JONESMy father would have been made a bishop much earlier than he was had it not been for me and my image.
GRACE JONESGrowing up in Jamaica, the Pentecostal church wasn’t that fiery thing you might think. It was very British, very proper. Hymns. No dancing. Very quiet. Very fundamental.
GRACE JONESI like dressing like a guy. I love it. When I was modeling I used to do pictures where I would dress up like my little brother. No makeup and I looked like a boy.
GRACE JONESI’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.
GRACE JONESIt 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 JONESI like to think of myself as a positive person. Otherwise I wouldn’t have had a child.
GRACE JONESI 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 JONESI love women, but I’ve never had a relationship with a woman.
GRACE JONESWe’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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