177 Quotes by Grace Jones

There was always someone else in the way until I worked out how to make myself the one who was in the way of others.

The Garage was members only, and you had to be interviewed to become a member. That was a bit strange, having to pass a test to prove how free-spirited you were, but it seemed to work. There would be a thousand, two thousand people in there – by the 1980s even more – and for a while most of them knew each other’s names.

If you are a fan of doing the unexpected, and I am, then it is an advantage to be highly skilled at changing your mind. If you do not want to limit yourself, then be prepared to change your mind – often.

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

If you are lonely when you are alone, you’re in bad company.

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.

One boyfriend told me that I loved myself too much. I thought, Well, you can love a boyfriend too much, but you can’t love yourself too much. Sometimes you have to love yourself to keep yourself whole. Something.

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.

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