Grace Jones Quotes

Use, don't abuse.

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

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'VE ALWAYS BEEN A REBEL. I NEVER DO THINGS THE WAY THEY'RE SUPPOSED TO BE DONE. EITHER I GO IN THE OPPOSITE DIRECTION OR I CREATE A NEW DIRECTION FOR MYSELF, REGARDLESS OF WHAT THE RULES ARE OR WHAT SOCIETY SAYS.

I 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.

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.

I'm not a rock star; I'm a soft person.

One creates oneself.

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

I wear my furs all the time. I wear like three different ones in a day.

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

I 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.

When you become such a strong personality in music, it's hard for people to accept you as a different character.

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

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 think 'pop' should mean that you had no talent.

I see myself as no color. I can play the role of a man. I can paint my face white if I want to and play the role of white. I can play a green, I can be a purple. I think I have that kind of frame and that kind of attitude where I can play an animal. If you think in color, then everyone around you is going to think in color and that puts limits on the way you think. I don't think like that. A lot of the roles that I'm doing are roles that a man or a person of any color can do.

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 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.

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.

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.

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

I never do what anyone else is doing. I could walk away from music and become a farmer or do some crochet. The worst thing in life for me is to do something I'm not happy doing.

There're lots of musicians in my family, too. My mother sings incredibly well. I've got to make a record with my mother's voice on it. She sings a lyric soprano. We do the opposite. I'm a baritone. She's a star singer in her church. She always does her solo.

When I started modelling, I'd raise my arms and it was all muscle and all the other models had nothing. Really, everybody thought I was a man. I don't have to do much to have muscles. It's just genetic.

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

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.

I loved all those classic figures from the '30s and '40s ... Bette Davis, Joan Crawford, Humphrey Bogart, Rita Hayworth. They had such glamour and style. I loved the movies of those times too - so much attention paid to details, lights, clothing, the way the studios would develop talent.

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

I was the only black girl at my junior high school. I had an afro, a Jamaican accent, I looked really old.

I believe in individuality, that everybody is special, and it's up to them to find that quality and let it live.

Rock n' roll can get quite overwhelming. You can get caught up in the cycle.

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

I don't like people who hide things.

This is depression, it comes when your blocking. This is expression it comes when you're rocking

To be honest, my life is not really as way-out and myth-loaded as people like to portray it.

That's what they do in Argentina. Have a little wine and talk. Then have some coffee and talk. Then, go back to the wine.

I love women, but I've never had a relationship with a woman.

Whatever; bling always has something to hide.

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

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

I go feminine, I go masculine. I am both, actually. I think the male side is a bit stronger in me, and I have to tone it down sometimes. I'm not like a normal woman, that's for sure.

You can be a boy, a girl, whatever you want. I have a lot of man in me.

I am an actress first, a singer second.

Music has its own depths, and I let it take me where it takes me, even if it means stripping all my clothes off.

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.