Music's most original figure Grace Jones is best known for her hits ‘Pull Up to My Bumper’, ‘Slave To The Rhythm’ and ‘I Need a Man’ and that time she hula hooped for the Queen. She has always been refreshingly honest in interviews and unafraid to discuss race, equality and sexuality with a brilliant frankness, here's ten of her best quotes:
‘Forget health clinics and gyms. Sex is the best cure. One good night of sex and your problems are gone’
'Another obsession that alienates some new boyfriends is making jigsaw puzzles.'
‘If I had taken as much cocaine as it is rumored, I wouldn’t have a nose.’
‘I am not moving until I am paid. I won’t even leave the hotel and go to the venue, because there is too much pressure once you arrive.’
‘Every singer given a makeover or a few weeks on a talent show seems to be called a diva these days! Christ almighty. Where’s the exclusivity? It’s so commercial now.’
'She was the first woman I felt that I could be with. I told her that. She just flat-out turned me on.'
‘They used to tell me when I started modelling, and that’s why I didn’t get many jobs, your nose doesn’t match your eyes, your eyes doesn’t match your lips, where the hell do you come from? What are you? So I figured I must have been a cat in a former life. If I put on the whiskers, the cat tail, and the cat outfit and all of a sudden everything falls into place.’
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