“All these fifty-year-old guys wearing baseball caps and shorts and acting like children. It winds me up. Men don't have to take responsibility anymore. Most of the guys I know would punch me on the nose for saying this, but maybe we do have to bring back conscription.” KnowsMenYearsChildrenGuyActingResponsibilityWindBaseballNosesFiftyTaking ResponsibilityCapsShortsOld GuysConscriptionBaseball CapsFifty Year Olds Author:Chrissie Hynde
“Remember those black-and-white films with Frank Sinatra? Those guys looked like men and they were only 27! Listen to Otis Redding singing 'Try A Little Tenderness'. That was a man who understood what a man has to know in the world. Show me a real man now! Where are they?” KnowsMenWorldTryingLittlesRealShowsRememberFilmGuyBlackWhiteSingingUnderstoodFrankTendernessBlack And WhiteShow MeReal Men Author:Chrissie Hynde
“When you're in a band and you're a girl, you know, guys just don't ... it's not the same kind of a groove as a girl walking up wearing a mac with nothing on underneath, or knocking on someone's door at three in the morning.” KnowsKindGuyGirlThreeMorningDoorsWalkingBandKnockingMacsGroove Author:Chrissie Hynde
“You know, when you're 23 and you get pissed, I mean drunk, you can just go crazy and it's all right. But if you're 43 and you do it, it's like your best friend's mother who used to come in pissed and everybody was really embarrassed. It just doesn't go down well, you know, after a certain age.” IfsKnowsWellsMeanAgeUsedMotherCertainCrazyLike YouDrunkEmbarrassedYour Best Friend Author:Chrissie Hynde
“For my 21st birthday, I think my mother wanted to give me a watch, or something, you know, some kind of traditional thing. And I said, "Well, if you're going to buy me something, there's a Gibson Melody Maker guitar advertised in the paper for 60 dollars. Do you think I could have that?" And I think that she was very disappointed that at 21 I was still messing around with that sort of thing. She didn't understand what it was all about. But now she understands it, and likes it.” IfsThinkingKnowsGivingWellsKindSaidStillsWantedMotherWatchesPaperGive MeDollarsGuitarLikesTraditionalMelodyMakersDisappointed21st Birthday Author:Chrissie Hynde
“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 something that they think they're supposed to sound like. But that kind of takes you away from real inspiration and, you know, real artistic discovery of the individual.” PeopleThinkingKnowsKindStillsRealInspirationIndividualSoundGoneMusicianDiscoveryArtisticRenegades Author:Chrissie Hynde
“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?” KnowsMenBoysHe ManPotWeed Author:Chrissie Hynde
“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.” KnowsWantLooksStillsBitsAmountPublicityReally Cool Author:Chrissie Hynde
“I don't listen to music, and I don't particularly watch television, so if anyone wants to come over and just hang out with me sitting at the table in silence, you know, eating a dish of rice... I don't get too many takers.” IfsKnowsWantSilenceWatchesTelevisionEatingSittingTablesHanging OutDishesListening To MusicRice Author:Chrissie Hynde
“Let's face it, we do have this mating instinct that just won't quit, you know? Just when you think it's safe to come out, there it is again. You're driving down the street, and it's the last thing on your mind, and all of a sudden you're like, "Oh, he looks nice," and you're up a lamppost.” ThinkingKnowsMindLooksLastsFacesNiceStreetsSafeInstinctQuittingDrivingMating Author:Chrissie Hynde
“I've done lots of songs for film soundtracks and things like that-stuff I'm not ashamed of, but that doesn't represent my legacy with the Pretenders...I think domesticity certainly doesn't make it easy to write, you know, because you've got a lot of distractions and I think a writer is always looking for distractions.” ThinkingKnowsWritingDoneFilmSongEasyStuffLegacyAshamedSongwritingDistractionSoundtracksPretenderDomesticity Author:Chrissie Hynde
