Chrissie Hynde

“Remember those black-and-white films with Frank Sinatra? Those guys looked like men and they were only 27! Listen to Otis Redding singing 'Try A Little Tenderness'. That was a man who understood what a man has to know in the world. Show me a real man now! Where are they?”

“I'll make music as long as I can sing and stand up and hold a guitar and I feel like doing this.”

“The so-called feminist writers were disgusted with me. I did my thing, and so I guess by feminist standards I'm a feminist. That suits me fine.”

“I'm not a figurehead for anything. I was a single mom with two kids. What else was I going to do? It was either be in a band or be a waitress.”

“I bought a Stella McCartney jacket in Salt Lake City. It's nice. It looks like a pea coat. I love Stella's stuff, so wherever I go in the world, I will always go in and buy her stuff.”

“I don't think it's good to be sentimental, so I try not to be.”

“I can't force myself to do anything I don't wanna do, really. I never have.”

“I have no sense of patriotism, but I do have a sense of community.”

“My heroes would never let me down; they never have. I've never been disappointed by any of them.”

“I don't know any guitar player, any of the real greats, who don't rate Joni Mitchell up there with the best of them.”

“You're lucky if you find something that makes you feel like yourself; that's the one time that you feel like you know who you are. Most people are struggling to find that out all the time.”

“I'm kind of a brown-rice hippy. I don't think I'd have much success if I tried a dinner party, but I'm not going to have one, and I've never been invited to one, and that's just fine.”

“In this business, things go in waves, and I might make a record every three years. That's enough for me; that satisfies me. And it satisfies the so-called public, because they don't really need a record every year. They don't even want one.”

“I did make a lot of my own clothes. I used to love to sew, so I made my own shirts and bell bottoms and modified my own clothes, which is what we did during the punk period.”

“I'm nothing without a band. I always feel like I'm part of the road crew until I'm on stage.”

“I like Madonna a lot. I think she's really good, and I think she's a good singer.”

“A ballad once in a while doesn't go amiss.”

“I'm not a complete moron like most musicians whom I've met.”