Chrissie Hynde
Chrissie Hynde
Christine Ellen "Chrissie" Hyndeis an American musician who is best known as a founding member of the rock band The Pretenders...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPop Singer
Date of Birth7 September 1951
CityAkron, OH
CountryUnited States of America
mom kids two
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.
nice princess unique
The thing about Janis is that she just looked so unique, an ugly duckling dressed as a princess, fearlessly so. Seeing her live was like watching a boxing match. Her performance was so in your face and electrifying that it really put you right there in the moment. There you were living your nice little life in the suburbs and suddenly there was this train wreck, and it was Janis.
cost records bootlegging
I'm all for bootlegging. A record costs $20 . . . who can afford that?
soul your-soul
How much did you get for your soul?
meat propaganda amount
No amount of false propaganda can sanitize meat.
writing jigsaw-puzzles pieces
Songwriting is like working on a jigsaw puzzle, and it doesn't make any sense until you find that last piece. It has to make sense or it doesn't work.
flags ass communist
If you don't have a flag sticking out of your ass, you must be a communist.
fate hands differences
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.
friendship artist enemy
Yeah, the industry has always been both the enemy and the best friend of the artist. They need each other. That's the bottom line.
looks world
There'sthemeat eaters and there'sus. And that'stheway I look at the world.
band either mom single
I'm not a figurehead for anything. 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.
depends hear iggy pop pretenders suppose
When I hear myself singing, I hear Iggy Pop and Jimi Hendrix. There's a conversational thing going on. I suppose it depends on which The Pretenders song you're listening to.
best mitchell rate
I don't know any guitar player, any of the real greats, who don't rate Joni Mitchell up there with the best of them.
sell
Look, as long as we can make records and sell enough so we can do some shows, that's all I want. You know what? I just want to play guitar and be in a band. Same as I always did.