Music has its own depths, and I let it take me where it takes me, even if it means stripping all my clothes off.
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.
GRACE JONESSome songs come from my head, some from my throat, but there will always be moments when it is an injection of the soul.
GRACE JONESI’m too vain, one of my biggest sins, but it saved me; I can see what excess does.
GRACE JONESEven if I sing like a robot, it is still an emotional robot.
GRACE JONESThere will always be a replacement coming along very soon – a newer version, a crazier version, a louder version. So if you haven’t got a long-term plan, then you are merely a passing phase, the latest trend, yesterday’s event.
GRACE JONESI wear my furs all the time. I wear like three different ones in a day.
GRACE JONESEveryone has to make their own decisions. I still believe in that. You just have to be able to accept the consequences without complaining.
GRACE JONESI was the only black girl at my junior high school. I had an afro, a Jamaican accent, I looked really old.
GRACE JONESTo be honest, my life is not really as way-out and myth-loaded as people like to portray it.
GRACE JONESI only started getting into furs when the designers I liked started making them.
GRACE JONESI 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.
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 never thought I was going to be a singer. That was an accident.
GRACE JONESWhen 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.
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 like working until the morning, so I can see the day and then I like to go to sleep and then get up before sunset. But I love the energy of the morning.
GRACE JONES