Quotes from Suzi Quatro

You're all right, as long as you don't believe your own hype.

Age isn't a barrier to playing the bass, and I've definitely improved over the years, although maybe I'm not as flash as I once was. But looking back, I can't imagine a life without a guitar.

I used to buy scented poetry books on tour and read aloud to the band. Not what you'd expect, huh?

I have recorded nine tracks for a new album which I financed myself and am looking for a home for.

Love is the best part of life

I miss America because it's where I grew up. I miss the size of the roads, the size of cars, the malls, the choices of radio.

Rock and roll mainly but I can play passable jazz also.

Joan was one of my biggest fans, as was Chrissie Hynde.

When I was seven, I decided to buy all my friends some ice cream, but the problem was where to get the money. Sneaking into church, I went to the side of the altar where you can light a candle for your loved ones and took the money from the collection boxes.

I do love acting. It's my second love and I would love to do more.

The Pleasure Seekers eventually turned into Cradle, when we started writing our own material. My younger sister Nancy was brought in as singer and I kind of stepped aside as main lead singer and concentrated on my instrument.

I was inspired by Billie Holliday, and I really liked Mary Weiss of the Shangri-Las because she wore tight trousers and a waistcoat on top - she looked hot.

This is just the way it goes: there's always a cycle with music - it goes up and it goes down, it goes risque and it goes back, it goes loud then it goes soft, then it goes rock and it goes pop.

I hate canceling anything, I'm 'the show must go on' mentality. If you can crawl, you can take the stage.

I would like to live forever in people's hearts and minds; that would be fun. I'll leave the world my art.

I can feel things - tap into emotions. When I meet a new person, I know their life straight away. I suppose you could call it a special intuition, but it's my number one quality, and I'm always 99.9 percent right. If I don't like someone, it always turns out to be for a good reason.

The bass player's function, along with the drums, is to be the engine that drives the car... everything else is merely colours.

I just couldn't get into the high school scene at all. I was fat, ugly and weird. I just couldn't do the makeup and the hairdos.

The bass should be the note of the bass drum, and then you've got the engine of the band that everything else builds on. Everything else, the guitar, the keyboards, is a colour.

'Rolling Stone,' my first single, was only a hit in Portugal, but when we recorded my second single, 'Can The Can,' I got that hair-on-the-back-of-the-neck feeling, and I knew it would be huge. It topped the charts in the U.K. and Australia in 1973, and I got my first gold disc.

I joined an all-girl band in Detroit and, although I was a pianist and drummer, I was asked to play bass because no one else wanted to. When I strapped it on, it fit me as good as my leathers. At the first gig we played, I looked out at the audience and thought, 'This is what I'm going to be doing for the rest of my life.'

I made up my mind that I was going to be just like Elvis. It never occurred to me that Elvis was a man. I just wanted to be him. He had a huge impact on me, right down to that black leather jumpsuit he wore on the '68 Comeback Special.

I am flattered to have been the woman to have opened the door for female rockers to be accepted into the mainly male industry.

Inside, I feel 30ish - I'm childish and optimistic.