177 Quotes by Grace Jones

For me, a diva is like the great opera singer, the great film star - out of reach, in their own world, with a real gift for invention: attention-demanding performance artists with a flamboyant, compelling sense of their own importance so special and inimitable it verges on the alien.

I've changed. I'm not worried about what people think, because I think people think what they want to think anyway.

This is what I would say to my pupil: 'You have become only your fame and left behind most of who you were. How are you going to deal with that? Will you lose that person forever? Have you become someone else without really knowing it? Do you always have to stay in character for people to like you? Do you know that you are in character?'.

Religion has stayed with me even though I rebelled.

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

There will always be a replacement coming along very soon - a newer version, a crazier version, a louder version. So if you haven't got a long-term plan, then you are merely a passing phase, the latest trend, yesterday's event.

My brother used to get beaten up all the time because he was very effeminate.

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.

One creates oneself.