I like to isolate myself when I work because I end up losing my voice by doing interviews all day.
GRACE JONESI love women, but I’ve never had a relationship with a woman.
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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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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When you start in that [model] business the rules are imposed upon you, but when you stay in the business long enough the rules could be broken.
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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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Survival is my primary instinct…it’s out of my control. It’s stronger than me. It’s an outside force, a voice that says ‘do this for your life or it will devour you.’
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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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Even if I sing like a robot, it is still an emotional robot.
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I’ve turned down millions of dollars to go on reality TV. It’s an absolute no-go.
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I don’t collaborate. You’re born alone, you die alone, you get on stage alone.
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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’m not a rock star, I’m a soft person.
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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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I’m too vain, one of my biggest sins, but it saved me; I can see what excess does.
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I believe in individuality, that everybody is special, and it’s up to them to find that quality and let it live.
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