I’ve turned down millions of dollars to go on reality TV. It’s an absolute no-go.
GRACE JONESI like to isolate myself when I work because I end up losing my voice by doing interviews all day.
More Grace Jones Quotes
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I’m too vain, one of my biggest sins, but it saved me; I can see what excess does.
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I just go with the flow, I follow the yellow brick road. I don’t know where it’s going to lead me, but I follow it.
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Prescription drugs can be even worse than illegal drugs. The only difference is the legality.
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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 was the only black girl at my junior high school. I had an afro, a Jamaican accent, I looked really old.
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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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My husband used to shout at my mother, ‘What is wrong with your daughter? I’m married to a man.’
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I have just as much woman in me as I have man. It’s just a matter of channeling the energy into which way you use it.
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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 hate prescription drugs! They don’t tell you everything that is in them.
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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 wear my furs all the time. I wear like three different ones in a day.
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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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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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To be honest, my life is not really as way-out and myth-loaded as people like to portray it.
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