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.
GRACE JONESMusic has its own depths, and I let it take me where it takes me, even if it means stripping all my clothes off.
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It doesn’t surprise me that people can’t see beyond my image. It’s amazing, but I can understand it. That’s what image is for. But it’s never a problem for me. It’s only a problem for them. I don’t really care. I do what I want regardless.
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I don’t know what I’m going to be doing in two years or even in two weeks. I have to live for today.
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To be honest, my life is not really as way-out and myth-loaded as people like to portray it.
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I never thought I was going to be a singer. That was an accident.
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Growing 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.
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I wear my furs all the time. I wear like three different ones in a day.
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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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I don’t think ‘pop’ should mean that you had no talent.
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Rock n’ roll can get quite overwhelming. You can get caught up in the cycle.
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There’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.
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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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I love women, but I’ve never had a relationship with a woman.
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Music has its own depths, and I let it take me where it takes me, even if it means stripping all my clothes off.
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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.
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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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