Chrissie Hynde Quotes

What characterized the whole punk scene for me in 1977 was there was no racism or sexism. It was an anarchy of -isms, and a matter of abolishing it all.

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.

In my experience lust only ever leads to misery. All that suspicion and jealousy and anguish it unleashes. I don't want those things in my life.

I preferred rock when it was in the dark, when it was a secret between me and the audience, when it wasn't mainstream.

I just want to play guitar and be in a band. Same as I always did.

Let's get rid of all the economic (expletive) this country represents! Bring it on, I hope the Muslims win!

I feel displaced when I'm back in America, like a visitor. I feel like if I don't get a cup of tea I'm going to lose my mind.

Once you stop drinking and smoking and stuff, it really gets on your nerves, all that nonsense going on.

Being on tour sends me crazy, I drink too much and out comes the John Mcenroe in me.

I don't believe there is any justifiable reason for killing any animal unless perhaps if it's killing you! That would be negotiable.

A ballad once in a while doesn't go amiss

Real success is not being on the cover of a magazine; it's knowing that you've done, and enjoyed doing, what you set out to do.

How much did you get for your soul?

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

One person can make all the difference in the world. For the first time in recorded human history, we have the fate of the whole planet in our hands.

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.

Yeah, the industry has always been both the enemy and the best friend of the artist. They need each other. That's the bottom line.

I hope there is an edge to what I do.

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

Realize your own potential and try to live out your expectations of your potential.

I think Bob Dylan's a good songwriter. I think he's the best songwriter in the world probably.

It's my tough luck if things happen that are complicated.

I'm not going to judge what I do.

I'm all for bootlegging. A record costs $20 . . . who can afford that?

No amount of false propaganda can sanitize meat.

There'sthemeat eaters and there'sus. And that'stheway I look at the world.

I just want to be as regular, and get by with doing the least amount of publicity, but still look really cool, you know? And get a bit of respect.

I don't wish to embarrass anyone.

I'm not saying I'd already done anything, actually, but I'd passed my experimental streak.

You try to be arrogant in songs because you can't be in real life.

I always thought if a guy could play the guitar, he must be something really special.

I can only cook brown rice and vegetables, so I don't get too many people coming over for dinner parties or anything.

When I was 16, the pot weeded out the men from the boys, there were the heads and the straights. Now it's almost like money can weed it out, you know?

I don't really go out to clubs, but if I did, I'd just want to go rock out with my mates or whatever.

I'd really rather just be the anonymous Mr. Nobody who I always was up until I first went onstage. I liked that.

In fact, I've only been to a couple of other people's dinner parties. But I must admit, I really enjoyed the few I've been to, but I'm not really on that circuit.

I don't like to think that I'm on a treadmill of album, tour, promotion and all that.

I expect people to at least use some thought.

I don't like to be recognized on the street or in restaurants, and I don't like the whole celebrity thing.

There are no real men.

I've never been to a Hollywood party, although I imagine that it might be fun.

If you're purely derivative in what you do, then you could very easily get lost along the way. But for me, I might want to even do something else for a while.

The celebrity thing is such a thing in itself now.

Songwriting is like working on a jigsaw puzzle, and it doesn't make any sense until you find that last piece. It has to make sense or it doesn't work.

There's this celebrity thing that goes along with making records or being a rock star. I'm into this celebrity thing just enough to let me go on making records and making a living out of it.

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.