I'll Never Write My Memoirs Quotes

“If you are a fan of doing the unexpected, and I am, then it is an advantage to be highly skilled at changing your mind. If you do not want to limit yourself, then be prepared to change your mind—often.”
― Grace Jones, I'll Never Write My Memoirs

“I can be a pain, but most of all, I can be a pleasure.”
― Grace Jones, I'll Never Write My Memoirs

“If you are lonely when you are alone, you’re in bad company.”
― Grace Jones, I'll Never Write My Memoirs

“There was always someone else in the way until I worked out how to make myself the one who was in the way of others.”
― Grace Jones, I'll Never Write My Memoirs

“One boyfriend told me that I loved myself too much. I thought, Well, you can love a boyfriend too much, but you can’t love yourself too much. Sometimes you have to love yourself to keep yourself whole. Something”
― Grace Jones, I'll Never Write My Memoirs

“Those who demand that you conform the most to how they live are the ones who are the most scared and intimidated by life. I”
― Grace Jones, I'll Never Write My Memoirs

“Sometimes, there’s nothing wrong with breaking promises, though. You can’t go through life without breaking promises. You need to break a few rules as well. Well, a lot of rules. When”
― Grace Jones, I'll Never Write My Memoirs

“There had been the very Jamaican revival religion that flourished in the nineteenth century, in which African rituals and Jamaican folk traditions were mixed with Christian belief, and many revivalists easily took to Pentecostalism because of its vibrant energy and faith in the power of healing. Pentecostalism incorporated rituals, spirits, and visions, but without seeming unchristian or unbiblical.”
― Grace Jones, I'll Never Write My Memoirs

“What are the chances of a female president being elected? The men-only corporate reaction is: What about the tampons?Will she bleed everywhere? What if she gets pregnant? What if she is going through menopause? What if she’s been through menopause and is therefore old and used up? It’s the same old caveman shit, a power thing.”
― Grace Jones, I'll Never Write My Memoirs

“The lateness also became more apparent, and notorious, once I started to perform. Half of the time I was late arriving onstage. I was asked to be late. That’s a big secret about my lateness. It has to do with money. A lot of the time when people are waiting for me to appear, I am waiting myself backstage. The clubs want to make money on the booze, and because people leave as soon as I finish, they make me wait so they can sell more booze. They pay me the door money, so they need the money from the bar. That was in my contract. They wouldn’t let me go onstage even if I wanted to. In that case, I might as well turn up late, rather than hang around. And then people started to expect me to be late. It became a Grace Jones thing. There would be disappointment if everything ran smoothly.”
― Grace Jones, I'll Never Write My Memoirs

“Still tripping after the flight, I decided I was going to hitchhike from Luxembourg, and I took one of my big photographs and wrote on the back in big black letters: Paris. I had no idea how far away it was, or even that it was in another country. I stood on this big highway—it was a beautiful day. I felt I looked pretty hot in my cape and hat, certainly worth someone stopping for to find out what the story was, but all these sports cars whizzed past me without stopping, totally ignoring me. None of them stopped. I thought, Everyone in Europe is so rude! Eventually, a sports car skidded to a halt. It backed up to me, and the driver said, in English, by the way, “You’re on the wrong side of the road. Paris is the other way! I think it’s safer for you to catch a train,” and he took me to the train station. He helped me get a ticket and onto the train, heading for Paris. I’m not sure if he was being kind or just wanted to get rid of me. I didn’t speak a word of French, not one word.”
― Grace Jones, I'll Never Write My Memoirs

“Be your own sugar daddy!”
― Grace Jones, I'll Never Write My Memoirs

“If you survive a childhood like mine relatively unscathed, you’re lucky, and as soon as you can make up rules for yourself, that’s what you are going to do, without thinking about what you leave behind. My”
― Grace Jones, I'll Never Write My Memoirs

“My sinuses got infected, and I became unwell. The next day, I had this TV show to do, and after the scuzzy dockland shoot, I was in a bad way and not thinking very clearly. To top it all off, somebody gave me some really bad coke to keep me going, because I was clearly wilting. That’s how it was. “No,” I said, “I am not taking that!” That’s not really my thing. I am happy to take something that I think will do me some good, but I was not so sure about sticking this powder up my nose without knowing if it was a weak coke substitute. I was a connoisseur, and it looked suspicious to me. It looked like it had been through a few distribution centers, diluted at each stop, cut down”
― Grace Jones, I'll Never Write My Memoirs

“There seemed to be more happening in London than in New York, more interesting artistic people to collaborate with. I had vowed to leave America if George Bush became president, and the day after he was voted in I left.”
― Grace Jones, I'll Never Write My Memoirs

“The Garage was members only, and you had to be interviewed to become a member. That was a bit strange, having to pass a test to prove how free-spirited you were, but it seemed to work. There would be a thousand, two thousand people in there—by the 1980s even more—and for a while most of them knew each other’s names.”
― Grace Jones, I'll Never Write My Memoirs

“I remember when I started going out with Dolph Lundgren. The grapevine hummed very quickly. Andy got the news before anyone else. Andy would ring up wanting to know how big Dolph’s dick was. It was that kind of world. Everyone was curious.”
― Grace Jones, I'll Never Write My Memoirs

“Oh,” he’d say, “nobody gets me on the dance floor but you, Grace,” as we danced to Michael Jackson. He loved Michael. They made a nice couple. I was also one of the few who could get Michael Jackson on a club dance floor dancing for the sake of it. I would have been best man for both of them if they had married, which in some universe was their destiny.”
― Grace Jones, I'll Never Write My Memoirs

“I was the first to be sent “Boogie Wonderland” and I turned it down because I didn’t believe in it. Can you imagine me singing “Boogie Wonderland”? Preposterous.”
― Grace Jones, I'll Never Write My Memoirs

“Experiencing life itself was the point: to propel myself out of my comfort zone, to feel alive, to take revenge on reality.”
― Grace Jones, I'll Never Write My Memoirs

“I never ask for anything in a relationship, because I have this sugar daddy I have created for myself: me. I am my own sugar daddy.”
― Grace Jones, I'll Never Write My Memoirs

“You need to see for yourself what is out there and make your own versions of what you see.”
― Grace Jones, I'll Never Write My Memoirs

“I had been treated as a victim for too long and now I wanted to be invisible, unmarked, too elusive to be domesticated.”
― Grace Jones, I'll Never Write My Memoirs

“The past exists side by side with the present,not behind; what was-is.”
― Grace Jones, I'll Never Write My Memoirs

“Apparently, when I started to sing, his sister shrieked in alarm, “That is my father’s voice!” My voice had the exact timbre of their father, who had died two days before, promising that he would be there onstage with Pavarotti. That was why he stopped me. He heard his father’s voice too, coming out of my mouth, and was completely unnerved.”
― Grace Jones, I'll Never Write My Memoirs

“It’s the same old caveman shit, a power thing. It’s why I want to fuck every man in the ass at least once. Every guy needs to be penetrated at least once. Do it yourself if you want. But that’s the vision—a woman lies there and the man goes in, takes control, whoosh. It’s all about power. The woman is always in the vulnerable position, and the man takes control. Come on. Everybody can be penetrated—mentally, too.”
― Grace Jones, I'll Never Write My Memoirs

“When I listen to Inside Story, I can hear the energy of what was going on the moment it was made. It is different from Nightclubbing, different from Slave to the Rhythm, but I listen to that record, and I love it. It’s where I was at the time. Nile’s ear was different from mine, and he was responding to his idea of me, and it was an American Nile production, with all that entails, but I think it is beautiful. There were other ways of doing that material, but I like how it ended up.”
― Grace Jones, I'll Never Write My Memoirs

“On “She’s Lost Control” by Joy Division, I took it literally. I lost control. I can’t listen to that track now. I lost control to such an extent I scared myself. I let everything build, build, build, and I let the words take me over.”
― Grace Jones, I'll Never Write My Memoirs

“I wrote “My Jamaican Guy” about Tyrone, because when we were in the Bahamas recording I remember him in the swimming pool, and he came out of the water with his dreadlocks flashing in the sun. As he came out of the water, he shook his dreadlocks like a dog would to dry off, and the water sprayed around him like sparks flying, and I thought of the idea, my Jamaican guy. We were not having an affair; it was an impression of something around me. I was watching things as a voyeur, being excited by something unexpected. It doesn’t mean it was about something real that I was involved in. I was using my imagination.”
― Grace Jones, I'll Never Write My Memoirs

“I had my baby shower at the Garage when I was pregnant with Paulo. Debbie Harry of Blondie and Andy Warhol threw it for me. That’s showing you normal. (Paulo and Keith Haring would also become very close; to Paulo, he was Uncle Keith. They would draw together, like it was the most fun you could have in the world.)”
― Grace Jones, I'll Never Write My Memoirs