I’m not a rock star, I’m a soft person.
GRACE JONES
Related Topics
Impatience
I’m not as impatient as I used to be. I used to hit people if I didn’t like what they were saying. Just lash out. ‘Bam – shut up! Hahahah!’ I was terrible.
More Grace Jones Quotes
-
I’m not a rock star, I’m a soft person.
GRACE JONES -
I would have rebelled against parental authority, no matter what. When I was 15, I started painting my face and making my own clothes.
GRACE JONES -
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 JONES -
I was skinny as a rail and had high cheekbones and a very interesting face – or so I was told.
GRACE JONES -
-
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.
GRACE JONES -
I don’t take the English press seriously at all because all they want is dirt. I hate them.
GRACE JONES -
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.
GRACE JONES -
I don’t know what I’m going to be doing in two years or even in two weeks. I have to live for today.
GRACE JONES -
My father would have been made a bishop much earlier than he was had it not been for me and my image.
GRACE JONES -
Growing up in Jamaica, the Pentecostal church wasn’t that fiery thing you might think. It was very British, very proper. Hymns. No dancing. Very quiet. Very fundamental.
GRACE JONES -
When you become such a strong personality in music, it’s hard for people to accept you as a different character.
GRACE JONES -
I like to isolate myself when I work because I end up losing my voice by doing interviews all day.
GRACE JONES -
It doesn’t surprise me that people can’t see beyond my image. It’s amazing, but I can understand it. That’s what image is for. But it’s never a problem for me. It’s only a problem for them. I don’t really care. I do what I want regardless.
GRACE JONES -
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.
GRACE JONES -
Everyone has to make their own decisions. I still believe in that. You just have to be able to accept the consequences without complaining.
GRACE JONES