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.
GRACE JONESI 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.
More Grace Jones Quotes
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It’s ridiculous for a woman to say that she’s not attracted to other women. That’s completely false.
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If people think I’m angry, I don’t want to burst anybody’s bubble. I like sometimes for people to be afraid of me. But it’s not really anger; it’s discipline.
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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 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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When you become such a strong personality in music, it’s hard for people to accept you as a different character.
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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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Survival is my primary instinct…it’s out of my control. It’s stronger than me. It’s an outside force, a voice that says ‘do this for your life or it will devour you.’
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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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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!
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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.
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I’m not a rock star, I’m a soft person.
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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.
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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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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.
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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.
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