I only started getting into furs when the designers I liked started making them.
GRACE JONESI’m too vain, one of my biggest sins, but it saved me; I can see what excess does.
More Grace Jones Quotes
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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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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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Models are there to look like mannequins, not like real people. Art and illusion are supposed to be fantasy.
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Women and men grow up with both sexes. Our mothers and fathers mean a lot to us, so it’s just a question of finding a balance between their influences. I’ve found mine. And it tends to be more on the male side. I mean male side the way we understand it in the West.
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I love women, but I’ve never had a relationship with a woman.
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I am an actress first, a singer second.
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I 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.
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I can look at a fur and tell if it’s good or not.
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When I perform on stage I become those male bullies, those dominators from my childhood. That’s probably why it’s so scary, because they scared me.
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I wear my furs all the time. I wear like three different ones in a day.
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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 never do what anyone else is doing. I could walk away from music and become a farmer or do some crochet. The worst thing in life for me is to do something I’m not happy doing.
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I’m still shocked every time I see snow. The first bit of snow each year… I stay up and I watch it. And then I go out and pick it up and eat it and move around in it.
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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.
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Rock n’ roll can get quite overwhelming. You can get caught up in the cycle.
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