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. — Chrissie Hynde Copy Share Image
If you're an artist, you need to work. It doesn't matter how old you are, who you are. It doesn't matter if you're 12: if you draw, you draw. If you're 85 and you paint, you paint. — Chrissie Hynde Copy Share Image
I preferred rock when it was in the dark, when it was a secret between me and the audience, when it wasn't mainstream. — Chrissie Hynde Copy Share Image
One person can make all the difference in the world. For the first time in recorded human history, we have the fate of the… — Chrissie Hynde Copy Share Image
I just want to be as regular, and get by with doing the least amount of publicity, but still look really cool, you know?… — Chrissie Hynde Copy Share Image
All I can really remember doing was listening to the radio and listening to records when I was at school. I wasn't very academic,… — Chrissie Hynde Copy Share Image
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… — Chrissie Hynde Copy Share Image
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… — Chrissie Hynde Copy Share Image
The thing about Janis is that she just looked so unique, an ugly duckling dressed as a princess, fearlessly so. Seeing her live was… — Chrissie Hynde Copy Share Image
When I hear myself singing, I hear Iggy Pop and Jimi Hendrix. There's a conversational thing going on. I suppose it depends on which… — Chrissie Hynde Copy Share Image
Music reflects the time that it's being made in, and so certainly, the music that's being made in 1986 by a 14-year-old kid will… — Chrissie Hynde Copy Share Image
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… — Chrissie Hynde Copy Share Image
I'd really rather just be the anonymous Mr. Nobody who I always was up until I first went onstage. I liked that. — Chrissie Hynde Copy Share Image
