177 Quotes by Grace Jones

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 don't like people who hide things. We're not perfect, we all have things that people might not like to see, and I like to show my faults.

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

I always thought that feminine, softer side was just too vulnerable to put out there, because then it's like you're opening up a door for everybody to come in, and you don't know who's going to come in that door.

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.

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

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.

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

I'm too vain, one of my biggest sins, but it saved me; I can see what excess does.