177 Quotes by Grace Jones

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.

I would have rebelled against parental authority, no matter what. When I was 15, I started painting my face and making my own clothes.

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.

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.

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.

I like to think of myself as a positive person. Otherwise I wouldn't have had a child.

I never thought I was going to be a singer. That was an accident.

I love women, but I've never had a relationship with a woman.

My father would have been made a bishop much earlier than he was had it not been for me and my image.