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" I made up my mind that I was going to be just like Elvis. It never occurred to me that Elvis was a man. I just wanted to be him. He had a huge impact on me, right down to that black leather jumpsuit he wore on the '68 Comeback Special. "

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" I am flattered to have been the woman to have opened the door for female rockers to be accepted into the mainly male industry. "

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" When punk picked up black leather, I put it down. "

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" I've always maintained that you can be sexy with your clothes on. Sexier maybe. "

" I hate canceling anything, I'm 'the show must go on' mentality. If you can crawl, you can take the stage. "

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" I'm totally active. I am just this side of hyper. I jog and go to the gym every day. When I'm on the computer, I'm reading, I'm writing, I'm never quiet. My brain is very rarely not engaged. Every now and again I will fall asleep under the parasol in the sun, but that's a rarity. "

" I may have been sexy, but I was covered up total. There was something left to the imagination. "

" I don't care what anyone says, but all children prefer their parents to be together. "

" 'Rolling Stone,' my first single, was only a hit in Portugal, but when we recorded my second single, 'Can The Can,' I got that hair-on-the-back-of-the-neck feeling, and I knew it would be huge. It topped the charts in the U.K. and Australia in 1973, and I got my first gold disc. "

" I joined an all-girl band in Detroit and, although I was a pianist and drummer, I was asked to play bass because no one else wanted to. When I strapped it on, it fit me as good as my leathers. At the first gig we played, I looked out at the audience and thought, 'This is what I'm going to be doing for the rest of my life.' "

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Life

" 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 also have a big love of classical music played on piano because this is the environment I grew up in my brother being one of the great masters in this world. "

" Even though my first marriage broke up, I'd say that I've had two good marriages and two good men. I've been very lucky. I like to think it's karma because, in a relationship, I give 300 per cent. I'm straight with my men, and I like to think it comes back. "

" 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. "

" I think like a man but have the emotions of a woman, and that's really dangerous. "

" I miss America because it's where I grew up. I miss the size of the roads, the size of cars, the malls, the choices of radio. "

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" I'm a Scrabble nut, and I need something to do while I'm travelling. Scrabble keeps me occupied, I play against myself. I have a high score of 718 that I'm always trying to beat. I'm a good player. You don't want to play me for money, that's for sure. "

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" I was a me-ist. I believed in the right to do whatever I wanted to do regardless of gender. Still do. "

" One of my insecurities was my looks. I was short, cute and chubby, and Dad used to call me his 'little fat sausage.' But I always knew I had musical talent. "

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" 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. "

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" I was inspired by Billie Holliday, and I really liked Mary Weiss of the Shangri-Las because she wore tight trousers and a waistcoat on top - she looked hot. "

" Do as many gigs as the good Lord sends. That's the only true training. "

" It sounds corny, but I consider myself an old-fashioned entertainer. I could have been in variety. "

" I'm one of those rare breed of rock n' rollers with a brain, probably because the brain's still intact. "

" I always found the road exciting. I liked stinking hotels and freezing dressing rooms. "

" I'm not a great flyer. It's ironic, since I'm in showbiz and have to fly at least twice a week. I try to sleep and blot it out. "

" I would like to live forever in people's hearts and minds; that would be fun. I'll leave the world my art. "

" The golden rule for playing the bass is that's it all about feel, not just plonking away. You need to feel the sound, not using a pick or a plectrum - which has meant plenty of calluses on my fingers. "

" You're all right, as long as you don't believe your own hype. "

" I jog every day, but I haven't had plastic surgery - though that's not to say if one day I look in the mirror and go 'Ugh!' I won't have something done. "