A ballad once in a while doesn't go amiss Chrissie Hynde More Quotes by Chrissie Hynde More Quotes From Chrissie Hynde 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 my life. Chrissie Hynde jealousylustwant Once you stop drinking and smoking and stuff, it really gets on your nerves, all that nonsense going on. Chrissie Hynde nervesdrinkingsmoking I'm not going to judge what I do. Chrissie Hynde judging I think Bob Dylan's a good songwriter. I think he's the best songwriter in the world probably. Chrissie Hynde bobworldthinking 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. Chrissie Hynde girldoorsmorning I'm with someone who's got very high standards, and he doesn't tolerate all these ridiculous vices very easily. That's not reason enough to marry someone, although people have gotten married for less. Chrissie Hynde high-standardsvicespeople It's my tough luck if things happen that are complicated. Chrissie Hynde toughluckcomplicated I hope there is an edge to what I do. Chrissie Hynde edges One person can make all the difference in the world. For the first time in recorded human history, we have the fate of the whole planet in our hands. Chrissie Hynde fatedifferenceshands 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 music made with commitment sounds like. Chrissie Hynde soundtodaycommitment I have no sense of patriotism, but I do have a sense of community. Chrissie Hynde patriotismcommunity I was a single mom with two kids. What else was I going to do? It was either be in a band or be a waitress. Chrissie Hynde momtwokids I feel displaced when I'm back in America, like a visitor. I feel like if I don't get a cup of tea I'm going to lose my mind. Chrissie Hynde mindteaamerica 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? Chrissie Hynde weedmenboys 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. Chrissie Hynde inspirationrealthinking I think if I lost an edge, or the music didn't have the aggression or whatever, which is maybe one of the hallmarks of what I do, if indeed it is, I still think if you have something original in what you do and you keep doing that, then you're all right. Chrissie Hynde hallmarklostthinking The people who are making a lot of money and eating at McDonald's and watching MTV and have square eyeballs, they're over there. And then maybe there's like five other people left in America and I'm just waiting for them to come up with something interesting. Chrissie Hynde mcdonaldssquaresamerica The celebrity thing is such a thing in itself now. Chrissie Hynde 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 firsts I don't really go out to clubs, but if I did, I'd just want to go rock out with my mates or whatever. Chrissie Hynde clubsrockswant
