Grace Jones Quotes

I got fed up with being in bands. I spent a couple of years touring the country in a smoked filled band, doing lots of drugs and being really unhealthy.

I drink too much, I smoke too much, I take pills too much, I work too much, I girl around too much, I everything too much.

You know you have a gambling problem when it's 4 A.M. at the Mirage Sports Book and you're walking around going, 'Hey you get the lacrosse scores?'

I was being ridiculed for going to school... But, you see, I had looked hard at the other musicians and the whole show-business scene... They were doing with jazz musicians what they usually reserved for rock n' roll cats: making them overnight successes, then overnight antiques.

My brother Paul's really kind of obsessive, and he obsesses over things.

If a man watches three football games in a row, he should be declared legally dead.

Undergraduate life on college campuses tends in the direction of neopagan excess.

I was into the music scene, but I was also a bit of a perfectionist and very hard on myself... very dark in that way.

The music technology scene is changing so fast it's hard to keep up.

I have to be careful with surfing. It's still an addiction to me. It's all I want to do, and that's the big dilemma I have with it.

Anything you can do in excess for the wrong reasons is exciting to me.

The road is a fun place, and it's a great place to get out there and explore the country. But as far as the road life with the 'rock n' roll temptations,' there's not much of that with me.

In music you have people exposing this very vulnerable part of themselves, and you also have the lifestyle is so fast that oftentimes people search for whatever the easiest way to feel relaxed in the midst of all of it, or the easiest way to have energy.

There is so much great talent in the underground, and electronic music is finally getting the props that it's deserved for so long. I feel like now that everyone is discovering it and it's so fresh sounding to so many people. It doesn't get any more rock n' roll than playing EDC or the Staples Center. It's really madness.

My problem is I'm an addictive personality. I can't have one coffee. I can't eat one piece of chocolate.

Anything that you can become obsessed with, and you do so much that you don't do the things you need to do with family, friends, school, job - that can be an addiction. And texting absolutely can qualify.

Everything goes by so fast that if you want to be a part of it, you need to go that fast. But because you go that fast, you don't lead the life you should lead.

One of the mistakes I made was believing that the rock n' roll genre as a genre was much more free than the whole pop or R&B scene.

Every few years I'll party way too much to remind myself what an idiot I am.

The demon of intemperance ever seems to have delighted in sucking the blood of genius and of generosity. What one of us but can call to mind some relative more promising in youth than all his fellows, who has fallen a sacrifice to his rapacity?

Rock n' roll's not dead.

Singing rock n' roll - they called it singing for the devil. But we all wanted an opportunity to compete in the music industry, and that was the opportunity.

Sure, I've done enough partying for 10 guys.

Pop music follows the evolution of society in general: Everything moves faster.

I've got quite an addictive personality where if I start doing something I try to do it to the best of my ability.