Chrissie Hynde

"Everybody had to own and maintain a car. It was the biggest con in the Land of the Free. Well, along with the tobacco and alcohol industries, which also pumped out poison and had the nation in their grip. Pharmaceuticals and firearms would join the party in due course."

"I did it because the offer of a record contract came along and it seemed like it might be more fun than being a waitress. Now, I'm not so sure."

"It's always sad when you start to hate what you love."

"After writing a song, there’s first a feeling of elation followed by the sinking feeling that it will never happen again, and you go back to thinking that you can't do it. It creates an ongoing feeling of inadequacy."

"Dave knocked on the door. “Iggy is in the bar,” he said. I drew my eyes back on and, as nonchalantly as I could manage, slipped down to the bar. “Hey! This is great,” he said, looking like Alfred E. Neuman and shaking my hand. He seemed as happy to meet me as I was him, as he introduced me to his girlfriend, Esther. In accordance with everybody else who’d met him, I found out that you either got Jim Osterberg, the straight-A Midwestern bookworm, or Iggy Pop, the drug-crazed, platinum-blond lunatic. The guy in the bar that night was Jim Osterberg."

"Confidence is usually a bluff – if you’re lucky you might have it, but frankly nobody will know the difference"

"…always carry an empty coke bottle, one in each hand, when going out alone at night. Nobody wants to get smashed in the head with a bottle."

"Smoking while vacuuming makes vacuuming better but smoking while sitting on the couch makes vacuuming harder."

"I can't not be alive"