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.
GRACE JONESIn 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.
More Grace Jones Quotes
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I was skinny as a rail and had high cheekbones and a very interesting face – or so I was told.
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Everyone has to make their own decisions. I still believe in that. You just have to be able to accept the consequences without complaining.
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Rock n’ roll can get quite overwhelming. You can get caught up in the cycle.
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I wear my furs all the time. I wear like three different ones in a day.
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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.
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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.
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Whatever; bling always has something to hide.
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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.
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My father would have been made a bishop much earlier than he was had it not been for me and my image.
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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.
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I came from a very strict background, and didn’t hear any Jamaican music when I was growing up.
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I believe in individuality, that everybody is special, and it’s up to them to find that quality and let it live.
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I only started getting into furs when the designers I liked started making them.
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To be honest, my life is not really as way-out and myth-loaded as people like to portray it.
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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.
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Music has its own depths, and I let it take me where it takes me, even if it means stripping all my clothes off.
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Whatever one is creating, one has to stick to one’s guns and just do it. That is all. Put your foot down and do not let your work be compromised.
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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.
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Some songs come from my head, some from my throat, but there will always be moments when it is an injection of the soul.
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You can be a boy, a girl, whatever you want. I have a lot of man in me.
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I don’t take the English press seriously at all because all they want is dirt. I hate them.
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I would have rebelled against parental authority, no matter what. When I was 15, I started painting my face and making my own clothes.
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I am an actress first, a singer second.
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We’re not perfect; we all have things that people might not like to see, and I like to show my faults.
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Models are there to look like mannequins, not like real people. Art and illusion are supposed to be fantasy.
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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.
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