I never thought I was going to be a singer. That was an accident.
GRACE JONESTo be honest, my life is not really as way-out and myth-loaded as people like to portray it.
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Some songs come from my head, some from my throat, but there will always be moments when it is an injection of the soul.
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Whatever one is creating, one has to stick to one’s guns and just do it. That is all. Put your foot down and do not let your work be compromised.
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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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I’m not a rock star, I’m a soft person.
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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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Now when I enter a carriage, it almost empties. But there’s always one brave enough to stay.
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I think I’m doing a service to black women by portraying myself as a sex machine. I mean, what’s wrong with being a sex machine, darling? Sex is large, sex is life, sex is as large as life, so it appeals to anyone that’s living, or rather it should.
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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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I always thought that feminine, softer side was just too vulnerable to put out there, because then it’s like you’re opening up a door for everybody to come in, and you don’t know who’s going to come in that door.
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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’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.
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I don’t like people who hide things.
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I’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.
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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 don’t take the English press seriously at all because all they want is dirt. I hate them.
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