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" Joan was one of my biggest fans, as was Chrissie Hynde. "

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

" Inside, I feel 30ish - I'm childish and optimistic. "

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

" The Pleasure Seekers eventually turned into Cradle, when we started writing our own material. My younger sister Nancy was brought in as singer and I kind of stepped aside as main lead singer and concentrated on my instrument. "

" 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 can feel things - tap into emotions. When I meet a new person, I know their life straight away. I suppose you could call it a special intuition, but it's my number one quality, and I'm always 99.9 percent right. If I don't like someone, it always turns out to be for a good reason. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" I refused to wear make-up on TV. I wanted my music to be heard. "

" 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. "

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

" The bass should be the note of the bass drum, and then you've got the engine of the band that everything else builds on. Everything else, the guitar, the keyboards, is a colour. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" I used to buy scented poetry books on tour and read aloud to the band. Not what you'd expect, huh? "

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