“I'm one of those rare breed of rock n' rollers with a brain, probably because the brain's still intact.”
“Inside, I feel 30ish - I'm childish and optimistic.”
“It sounds corny, but I consider myself an old-fashioned entertainer. I could have been in variety.”
“When punk picked up black leather, I put it down.”
“You're all right, as long as you don't believe your own hype.”
“After moving to England I did some recording and eventually formed an English band, this was together for quite a few years with only a keyboard replacement. The band had no name, just my name.”
“Age isn't a barrier to playing the bass, and I've definitely improved over the years, although maybe I'm not as flash as I once was. But looking back, I can't imagine a life without a guitar.”
“As Mick Jagger will tell you, performing is an aerobic work-out. I've got the bass guitar, which is the heaviest of all the instruments, and I'm a little girl, in boiling-hot leather under the lights. You have to keep the fitness level up if you want to look good up there.”
“I don't know what else I would do. I love entertaining people, I love communicating, I love an audience. I'm a real artist, right from the bottom of my toes to the top of my head.”
“I don't really think about male and female; if something's right for me, it's right for me, and it doesn't matter what it is - maybe that's what it took for me, a woman, to break down the doors.”