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" I've got a quick mouth, and I set my boundaries. Nothing ever happened that I couldn't handle. Once when a guy came on stage making rude gestures, I hit him over the head with my guitar. "

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" I never, ever saw myself as glam because I didn't wear makeup... my image is a plain leather jumpsuit, which is not glam at all. I've always seen myself as rock n' roll and not glam. "

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Never

Myself

Makeup

" I am the fourth of five children, and I can't remember a time with no babies in the house. "

" Len and I had parted musical ways and this was one of the problems. "

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

" 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. "

" As far as more recognition goes, I am happy with the amount of love and respect I have received from other artists and the public. Of course, I would love more, and think I deserve it. "

" 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.' "

Suzi Quatro

Good

Life

" I didn't think I was going to change the world for women; I just did what I did. My big thing was that I didn't change who and what I was to become successful. I will not be told what to do; I'm a real independent girl. "

" 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. "

Suzi Quatro

Doors

Matter

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

" I read and write classical piano and percussion, also guitar. "

" Rock and roll mainly but I can play passable jazz also. "

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

" I just couldn't get into the high school scene at all. I was fat, ugly and weird. I just couldn't do the makeup and the hairdos. "

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

Suzi Quatro

Punk

Leather

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

" My own musical ambitions were born when I was five, watching the Ed Sullivan Show on TV. When Elvis Presley burst on to the screen, singing 'Don't Be Cruel,' I felt my first sexual thrill, though I didn't know what it was at the time. "

" Be honest, be kind, and share the love. "

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Love

Be Kind

" 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. "

Suzi Quatro

Always

Fat

" 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. "

Suzi Quatro

America

Size

" Rock n' roll! It's the music of puberty. "

" I got my first real bass guitar in my hands when I was 14 - a 1957 Fender Precision, which is still hanging on the wall in my front room. I loved the heaviness of it and the feel of the wood. I still do. "

" I'm a bit of a wine snob and like a glass of Chateaux Margaux '82 with a meal or to unwind. "

Suzi Quatro

Unwind

Wine

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

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

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

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

Suzi Quatro

Anything

Hate

" '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 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. "