I don’t take the English press seriously at all because all they want is dirt. I hate them.
GRACE JONESI don’t take the English press seriously at all because all they want is dirt. I hate them.
GRACE JONESI 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.
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 JONESI don’t think ‘pop’ should mean that you had no talent.
GRACE JONESI didn’t think I had a voice at all, and I still think of myself as an interpreter of songs more than a singer. I thought it was too deep; people thought I was a man. I had a very strong Jamaican accent, too; the accent really messed me up for auditions.
GRACE JONESI can look at a fur and tell if it’s good or not.
GRACE JONESI like to think of myself as a positive person. Otherwise I wouldn’t have had a child.
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 JONESModels are there to look like mannequins, not like real people. Art and illusion are supposed to be fantasy.
GRACE JONESI’ve turned down millions of dollars to go on reality TV. It’s an absolute no-go.
GRACE JONESEven if I sing like a robot, it is still an emotional robot.
GRACE JONESI was skinny as a rail and had high cheekbones and a very interesting face – or so I was told.
GRACE JONESIt’s ridiculous for a woman to say that she’s not attracted to other women. That’s completely false.
GRACE JONESMost performers take themselves too seriously. They forget there is a difference between the characters they play on the screen or stage and themselves, but the public doesn’t forget there is a difference. They see how silly it is if you try to be the same person all the time.
GRACE JONESYou can be a boy, a girl, whatever you want. I have a lot of man in me.
GRACE JONESPrescription drugs can be even worse than illegal drugs. The only difference is the legality.
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