The Clash were innovative, radical and helped drive a change in music that was ground-breaking. In comparison to some of the music today they sounded like they meant it. I still listen to their music today to remind myself what… — Chrissie Hynde Copy Share Image
The cliché of that sort of wasted, renegade, drugged-out musician of the '70s is kind of dead and gone now. And I suppose that a lot of people still keep relying on that, or some kind of image to perpetuate… — 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
