I loved Wilson Pickett, so I just went on from there. I became sort of a semi-groupie because, I don't know, I got bitten by the music bug. Cassandra Peterson More Quotes by Cassandra Peterson More Quotes From Cassandra Peterson When I was Elvira, it was probably the phase of my hair getting too high. I thought that if really high hair was good, then really higher hair was even better. So I just started having my hair get higher and higher. In some of the pictures, we had to cut off the picture because it was like Marge Simpson. So that was embarrassing. The wig phase. Cassandra Peterson wigs cutting hair A lot of people bring it to me at conventions. At first I was going, "I can't sign that. That's not me." And now I just say, "Eh, whatever." Cassandra Peterson conventions people firsts When I was a kid, my favorite after-school snack was hominy and pickled pigs feet. Cassandra Peterson pigs kids school I was probably about 13 or 14, and I went by myself to the City Auditorium in Colorado Springs and saw the guy who wrote and sang "Itsy Bitsy Teenie Weenie Yellow Polkadot Bikini." Brian something. And I got to meet him and he signed an autograph for me, a little piece of paper. Brian Hyland! It was so bizarre. Cassandra Peterson cities yellow spring My first ones were The Young Rascals. I made out with Dino Danelli, the drummer, in the alley behind the City Auditorium. Then I met Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young. Mitch Ryder & The Detroit Wheels. This is all way, way back in the day. Later I got in the big leagues, like chasing around The Rolling Stones. And I hid in the bus for Paul Revere & The Raiders. And The Zombies. Cassandra Peterson zombie cities league The best was The Yardbirds. I still love The Yardbirds and The Zombies. Cassandra Peterson zombie stills I have a lot of good days I'd like to relive, but that [ the day my daughter was born] was one that's still with me. Cassandra Peterson good-day born daughter [I] go to the Golden Globes, the Grammys, all the awards shows. Just stuff you would never get to do as a regular person were things that were really exciting for me. Cassandra Peterson golden awards stuff I got to do the Rose Bowl Parade - which is the largest parade in America - with a float. That was a fun opportunity. Cassandra Peterson opportunity fun america Maybe one of the strangest opportunities was I got to ring the closing bell on the New York Stock Exchange. Cassandra Peterson bells new-york opportunity I think the strangest thing probably is when I went to Japan, and I don't know what the hell I was eating, but there was this one thing that seemed to be in a lot of soups and things there - I always called it pond scum. It looked exactly like the green stuff that floats on top of a pond. I would say, "Oh my God, this has pond scum in it!" I would eat it, to be polite, because we were usually with Japanese people and I didn't want to gag or spit it out or anything. And I still don't know what it was. Cassandra Peterson japan people thinking One of the things that's kind of persistent is that I am the model on the cover of Tom Waits' album, Small Change. Cassandra Peterson small-changes albums waiting I have a thing about underwear. I have to wear thongs. Since I was a showgirl in Las Vegas, and I was wearing G-strings all the time, I got this thing where I cannot stand to have on regular underwear. It drives me out of my mind. Cassandra Peterson underwear vegas mind It certainly changes your life. So that may be a cliché, but I think any woman would say that [day when her baby born] would have been the most special day of their life. Cassandra Peterson special baby thinking The labor part wasn't so great, but seeing [my daughter] for the first time was pretty awesome. I mean, how does it get better than another actual person popping out of your stomach, you know? Cassandra Peterson get-better daughter mean I do not remember the '70s, for who-knows-what-all reasons. Cassandra Peterson reason knows remember [Brian Hyland autograph] was what got me started on going to concerts, because from then on, I was at every concert for everybody. Cassandra Peterson brian autographs concerts I just count myself really lucky to have a career that I love and that continues to pay my rent. Cassandra Peterson lucky careers pay I remember the '60s, I remember the '80s, but somehow I went directly from the '60s to the '80s. Cassandra Peterson 80s remember I sort of don't remember anything I did in the '70s. Cassandra Peterson remember
