If people think I’m angry, I don’t want to burst anybody’s bubble. I like sometimes for people to be afraid of me. But it’s not really anger; it’s discipline.
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.
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Prescription drugs can be even worse than illegal drugs. The only difference is the legality.
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I am an actress first, a singer second.
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I like to think of myself as a positive person. Otherwise I wouldn’t have had a child.
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There 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.
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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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I love women, but I’ve never had a relationship with a woman.
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In the Seventies and Eighties we all had our fun, and now and then we went really too far. But, ultimately, it required a certain amount of clear thinking, a lot of hard work and good make-up to be accepted as a freak.
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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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Rock n’ roll can get quite overwhelming. You can get caught up in the cycle.
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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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When I was modelling, I spent half my life staring at thousands of perfect reflections. It got to a stage where I was losing all sense of reality – so after I quit modelling, I took all the mirrors out of my house.
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I hate prescription drugs! They don’t tell you everything that is in them.
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I 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.
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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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When 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.
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