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.”

“Religion has stayed with me even though I rebelled.”

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

“My husband used to shout at my mother, 'What is wrong with your daughter? I'm married to a man.'”

“One creates oneself.”

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

“I don't party now, and nobody really knows how to party with me anymore. So I stay in a lot. I really am a home person.”

“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.”

“I have been so copied by those people who have made fortunes that people assume I am that rich. But I did things for the excitement, the dare, the fact that it was new, not for the money. And too many times I was the first, not the beneficiary.”

“I wanted to be a 'jungle mom', where you're giving birth and getting up and doing things straightaway.”

“I'm a man-eating machine.”

“Rock n' roll can get quite overwhelming. You can get caught up in the cycle.”

“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.”

“More having to do whatever anybody said you had to do. I couldn't really do anything on my own. But as I got older and then came to America and then Grace became my name, it somehow freed me. All of a sudden, I can be this other person.”

“People always like to make me seem taller than I am.”

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

“If you want me to work with you, then come with an idea. Come with music.”

“I've had more misrepresentations than I can handle, and people have told the wickedest lies about me. A lot of them have taken their frustrations out on me, and I don't like that because it can wound. Not necessarily me, but those around me. Journalists can be so bad.”

“I loved all those classic figures from the '30s and '40s... Bette Davis, Joan Crawford, Humphrey Bogart, Rita Hayworth. They had such glamour and style. I loved the movies of those times too - so much attention paid to details, lights, clothing, the way the studios would develop talent.”

“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.”