Patty Smyth Quotes
It took a while for me to figure out how it all fit in, being a mother and being a woman and being a rock singer.
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When I first came out, country wouldn't touch me because I was way too rock, and rock wouldn't touch me because I was definitely country.
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'School of Rock' was just once in a lifetime things; I want to be a doctor, actually. I'd go an do the sequel if they asked me to.
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We started by playing girls who only married at the end of the picture. We didn't play wives. That came later. But the most dreadful thing was when a star had to play a mother. That was the beginning of her professional end.
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My mother's Mohawk and my father is Scottish/German from Nova Scotia.
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I grew up on Raffi. That was my first impression of what a rock star was.
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When I stopped seeing my mother through the eyes of a child, I saw the woman who helped me give birth to myself.
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I love classic rock, rock and roll, that's the top notch. I love soul - bluesy music as well.
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I always say, one way to connect with a working mother is to ask her what she has done before work that day!
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Sure, we've had our fair share of ups and downs, but I don't know if we've had more than any other rock band... we just have a way of getting ourselves into hot water.
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Rock n' roll was a kid when I was a kid.
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I did not want to get involved with a rock star. No way. It is not a sane thing to do.
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I married a man whose Hindu father grew up in the rural north of India and whose Jewish mother grew up in the Bronx.
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Working from home as a mother is the worst of everything. You don't have clear boundaries. The kids can get used to you going to work; they can't get used to you ignoring them. And work sometimes gets the message you're not as committed.
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The thing with me is, about that - about rock and all that - years and years of crate-digging, listening to old music, you kind of start to connect the dots. And I was seeing the thread that was connecting everything together, which is pretty much the blues. And everything soul or funk kind of starts with that.
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Dave was great in Van Halen. No question about it. He was one of the best at being Mr. Rock Star. But it's sickening to see a guy still trying to be that with a wig on 20 years later.
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I don't know if it's possible to live the rock 'n roll lifestyle and still be romantic.
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My mother was American, and my father was from the Caribbean, and there was a big open door into the world of humanity and music.
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My mother had a lot of phobias. She's pregnant with me and she was a very phobic person. So I was born into phobia, basically.
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Me, who's educated classically, I went toward rock music 'cause it was sort of a natural evolution from where I was playing with my brother. But I was always drawn back into classical music.
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I'd love to interview Bill Clinton. I know that might be a little boring, but he's so interesting and such an amazing guy. All he's done after his presidency... he hasn't just sat around, he's been so active in so many charitable causes.
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The photoshoot glitz and TV studio make-up isn't the real me. I spend most days at home in Bristol in jeans and a T-shirt running around after the kids or shopping in the Co-op.
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Inviting artists to do something, you want it to be a place where they're going to feel challenged and excited and that will maybe open up some new doorway in their own lives or their own creative practice.
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I worked my way up in the private sector and implemented Georgia's tough voter ID law.
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It took a while for me to figure out how it all fit in, being a mother and being a woman and being a rock singer.
