All I'm interested in is making rock 'n' roll records and going out there with the energy and the sex and the sweat.
At this point in my career, I'm not interested in making people rich, like publishers and writers and producers. I've done enough of that.
Back 20 years ago, I was recording with Bruce Springsteen, and his producer called me and said I had to be in the studio the next day to finish the sessions, and I couldn't. I had to be in court, in California. All this took like 10 years out of my life.
Because people are going to want to hear more of the genuine rock 'n' roll. The acts I see today, they're not rocking and rolling.
But I don't really like to discuss Phil anymore.
But, you know, the Stones were my opening act in the Sixties. I loved those British guys, the way they just stood there and shook their hair.
Every act I see, their whole act is choreographed. I'm sick of seeing these dancers. The only reason they have them is they don't have enough talent to get people dancing themselves.
From that first meeting, I totally loved working with Joey, it was a real collaboration.
I didn't want anything between the lyrics and my voice. So, it's me, the real me.
I have three adopted children with Phil, and for years I was fighting in court with him over being able to see my kids. I was always going back and forth to California, going to court, and I was never able to get a project going.
I just want to get on stage and sing and be happy.
I liked No Doubt. I was really getting into them; I thought they were awesome, and then next year they weren't even around.
I love my songs, let's not get crazy here.
I love Ruth Brown, not just her singing, but Ruth Brown has more girl power than anyone, because she fought hard against people who ripped her off and then helped other artists through the Rhythm and Blues Foundation.
I love the fact that 35 years later, I still hear my songs on the radio.
I mean, Janet Jackson? She's like Michael Jackson with hair.
I never tried to kill myself or anything.
I see the Ricky Martin thing, and everything is like, just packaged for this moment. Where are they going to be 10 years, 20 years from now?
I think Behind the Music is good for people like Leif Garrett and Motley Crue.
I thought the Goldmine article was real good but I do know that the discography was missing a lot of records and had some wrong information in it.
I used to cry myself to sleep every night. I missed singing so much. And performing. Man, I missed it so much.
Kill Rock Stars allowed me to put out a real genuine rock 'n' roll record.
Most of the groups I worked with 30 years ago are either dead or dead broke. And it's a shame.
My honeymoon night was spent on the floor in the bathroom with my mother.
No one has their own identity like the Ronettes did back in the day.
People are going to wake up one day and not know what rock 'n' roll feels like: the sweat, the energy, the sexual tension.
So don't get me wrong, I love my songs, and I still love hearing them. That's history, baby.
Stage performing is a dying art form.
The people need to feel the music.
There was no alcohol back then, and no drugs. I remember people bringing cakes back to us after a show, but I never even smelled marijuana back then.
They're trying to get me to go out there and testify, but I cannot go through that again in my whole life. No way, I'd be a basket case.
This is a slow way of getting back into it, of people getting to know who I am again.
Today, they're just up there for the money, just packaged and be gone.
We had the skirts with the slits up the side, sort of tough, sort of Spanish Harlem cool, but sweet too.
Well, first of all, they're all about the music and all I care about in my professional career is the music.
When I do a concert and people put their hands in the air, they're doing it on their own.
When we started, we didn't do it for the money, we didn't do it to be packaged, all we wanted to do was rock 'n' roll, to have fun, and we did.
You have to let the audience feel you, you have to let them feel the love, feel the rock 'n' roll, feel the energy.
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