I don't want my children to be at a disadvantage, growing up in the limelight, because then they have to live up to an identity already cut out for them, relating all the time to being so-and-so's daughter or so-and-so's… — 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 like watching a boxing match. Her performance was so in your face and electrifying that it really put you right there in the moment. There you were living your nice little life in the suburbs and… — Chrissie Hynde Copy Share
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
