Grace Jones Quotes

I never thought I was going to be a singer. That was an accident.

It was very painful combing my hair. My grand-uncle was a Pentecostal bishop, and he was very strict: our hair couldn't be permed or straightened. So I just cut it all off.

I don't take the English press seriously at all because all they want is dirt... I hate them.

Now when I enter a carriage, it almost empties. But there's always one brave enough to stay.

When I perform on stage I become those male bullies, those dominators from my childhood. That's probably why it's so scary, because they scared me.

I 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.

Crying is not a weakness. It's something that should be able to work for you. It should also be a strength. I think if you can cry when you feel like crying it's a strength. If you feel like crying and you can't cry, that's a weakness. That means you're holding all that stuff inside.

I'm too vain, one of my biggest sins, but it saved me; I can see what excess does.

When you start in that [model] business the rules are imposed upon you, but when you stay in the business long enough the rules could be broken.

My father would have been made a bishop much earlier than he was had it not been for me and my image.

I like to think of myself as a positive person. Otherwise I wouldn't have had a child.

I can look at a fur and tell if it's good or not.

Disco 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!

Models are there to look like mannequins, not like real people. Art and illusion are supposed to be fantasy.

I think I'm doing a service to black women by portraying myself as a sex machine. I mean, what's wrong with being a sex machine, darling? Sex is large, sex is life, sex is as large as life, so it appeals to anyone that's living, or rather it should.

I don't think 'pop' should mean that you had no talent.

Everyone has to make their own decisions. I still believe in that. You just have to be able to accept the consequences without complaining.

Most 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.

For some reason, I can inspire things that are in good taste, but then sometimes I can also inspire, like, wooooow. Some producers have this really sexual idea, and they're like, "Now I can do this, with her!" And I will just go: non, non, non. That's not me, it's you. You're projecting, man.

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.

Forget health clinics and gyms. Sex is the best cure. One good night of sex and your problems are gone.

I've turned down millions of dollars to go on reality TV. It's an absolute no-go.

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.

I am an actress first, a singer second.

I hate prescription drugs! They don't tell you everything that is in them.

I like to isolate myself when I work because I end up losing my voice by doing interviews all day.

My mother was a champion high-jumper. My three brothers are basketball players. We've all been very athletic.

I was skinny as a rail and had high cheekbones and a very interesting face - or so I was told.

Some songs come from my head, some from my throat, but there will always be moments when it is an injection of the soul.

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.

I've had more misrepresentations than I can handle, and people have told the wickedest lies about me. A lot of them have taken their frustrations out on me, and I don't like that because it can wound. Not necessarily me, but those around me. Journalists can be so bad.

I don't collaborate. You're born alone, you die alone, you get on stage alone.

You can't expect your children to be perfect.

Women and men grow up with both sexes. Our mothers and fathers mean a lot to us, so it's just a question of finding a balance between their influences. I've found mine. And it tends to be more on the male side. I mean male side the way we understand it in the West.

In the Seventies and Eighties we all had our fun, and now and then we went really too far. But, ultimately, it required a certain amount of clear thinking, a lot of hard work and good make-up to be accepted as a freak.