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.
GRACE JONESIt’s ridiculous for a woman to say that she’s not attracted to other women. That’s completely false.
More Grace Jones Quotes
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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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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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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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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.
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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.
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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 wear my furs all the time. I wear like three different ones in a day.
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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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I just go with the flow, I follow the yellow brick road. I don’t know where it’s going to lead me, but I follow it.
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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.
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I’m not as impatient as I used to be. I used to hit people if I didn’t like what they were saying. Just lash out. ‘Bam – shut up! Hahahah!’ I was terrible.
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My mother was a champion high-jumper. My three brothers are basketball players. We’ve all been very athletic.
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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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I don’t collaborate. You’re born alone, you die alone, you get on stage alone.
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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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