I came from a very strict background, and didn’t hear any Jamaican music when I was growing up.
GRACE JONESI came from a very strict background, and didn’t hear any Jamaican music when I was growing up.
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 JONESWhatever; bling always has something to hide.
GRACE JONESI like dressing like a guy. I love it. When I was modeling I used to do pictures where I would dress up like my little brother. No makeup and I looked like a boy.
GRACE JONESI always thought that feminine, softer side was just too vulnerable to put out there, because then it’s like you’re opening up a door for everybody to come in, and you don’t know who’s going to come in that door.
GRACE JONESThis is depression, it comes when your blocking. This is expression it comes when you’re rocking
GRACE JONESForget health clinics and gyms. Sex is the best cure. One good night of sex and your problems are gone.
GRACE JONESI’ve lived long enough to feel the sway of corporations both legal and illegal. Corporations give you drugs and they prescribe and prescribe them and they can be worse for you. Whereas you have illegal drugs and that is all about moderation. You have to know your body.
GRACE JONESNow when I enter a carriage, it almost empties. But there’s always one brave enough to stay.
GRACE JONESDisco was like the celebration of music through dance and my God! When you heard the music sometimes it was like, if you don’t get up and dance, you aren’t human!
GRACE JONESI thought I’d take style to its limit, My philosophy is a belief in magic, good luck , self-confidence, and pride.
GRACE JONESI hate prescription drugs! They don’t tell you everything that is in them.
GRACE JONESTo be honest, my life is not really as way-out and myth-loaded as people like to portray it.
GRACE JONESYou can be a boy, a girl, whatever you want. I have a lot of man in me.
GRACE JONESI’m still shocked every time I see snow. The first bit of snow each year… I stay up and I watch it. And then I go out and pick it up and eat it and move around in it.
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 JONES