I started The Runaways with Sandy West. We shared the dream of girls playing rock and roll. Sandy was an exuberant and powerful drummer. So underrated, she was the caliber of John Bonham. I am overcome from the loss of my friend. I always told her, we changed the world.
I learned how to scream from Marc Bolan.
When I met you you were oh so sweet, now you give me the bread and you take all the meat.
I love rock and roll, so put another dime in the juke box, baby.
I don’t like to say where I’ll be in 10 years.
You follow any family around, you’re going to see elation, you’re going to see disharmony.
I’ve always got something to say.
I think it’s important to have mystique.
I’ve been able to do a lot of things a lot of people haven’t, that other people would dream of. I’ve been able to live out my fantasies, and dreams! So, I’m real lucky.
A lot of the songs I’ve recorded are songs I write.
So it was out of necessity that Blackheart was born. I think it’s great that now, 25 years later, we’re not only putting out our own music, but are able to put out music by other bands. That’s really exciting for us.
Shaving my head was a millennium ritual, to not let it pass as just another New Year’s Eve. A lot has happened to me in the last couple of years, personally and spiritually. I wanted to mark it for myself.
Before I settled on music, I wanted to be an archaeologist, an astronaut, all sorts of really diverse things.
Performance-wise, you really need to be down in the trenches; you need to do the hard work, for a lot of reasons: To build yourself as a performer, to get a sense of the audience, to work hard and to wonder, ‘Do I really want to do this?’
Only because The Runaways were my baby and there’s no reason to get it back together except to totally have fun. If that’s not the goal, then I don’t want to do it.
I sure saw a lot of kids that I’m sure didn’t know a lot about us, or we were definitely new to them. The kids who came up to me afterward, we’d talk about music, sign a lot of autographs. So I’m sure we made a lot of new fans.
My job is intense. It’s very physical.
It’s easier to sit there and say you don’t like feminists because they don’t have a sense of humor.
I’ve done some acting and a lot of different things, but mostly it’s the music.
I’m not a list person.