Quotes from Pat Benatar

People's lives change dramatically over such a long time period, and I think that if you're still vital, and you're still interested in writing and things like that, of course your music evolves and reflects where you are in your life.

Before I put another notch in my lipstick case, you better make sure you put me in my place.

I spent most of my adult life as someone's mother and the rest of my life trying to make sure that children are safe. So this to me is - we wrote Hell Is For Children in 1979.

You don't want to trash what you've done; that's your history.

We can't afford to be innocent, stand up and face the enemy. It's a do or die situation, we will be invincible.

I never looked at people or singing as commodities.

I like Lady Gaga because I like that she pushes the envelope.

Everything changes all the time, and unfortunately, everyone who knows what you do by buying records only hears a small amount of what's going on in your life.

First of all, I'm pretty private about my personal life.

When you have girl children they torture you!

When you have girl children, they torture you! If at any moment of the day I ever think I'm remotely cool at all, which is hardly ever, I have two daughters who make sure that never happens. They say, 'Mom, you didn't really wear that?' And I say, 'Yes, and pretty much everyone saw it.'

It was very difficult when I was trying to figure out how to have a marriage and babies and do this at the same time. There was no handbook. You were making it up as you went along.

You're a heartbreaker, dream maker, love taker, don't you mess around with me.

You shouldn't have to pay for your love with your bones and your flesh.

Love and pain become one and the same in the eyes of a wounded child.

Love and pain become one in the same in the eyes of a wounded child.

But the soul of touring and the heart of it is basically every day is like putting up a circus tent.

Most chick singers say 'if you hurt me, I'll die'... I say, 'if you hurt me, I'll kick your ass.'

Love is a battlefield.

You can't change the past so don't let it haunt you. You can change the future but first you've got to want to.

I play ten, twelve weeks out of the year, five times a week, and I really still love to do it. But that's not what I'm interested in doing now. Even though I love it.

I love Katy Perry and Lady GaGa. I think GaGa's pushing the envelope every day and I really like that.

I love Katy Perry, she is a wonderful pop singer.

I don't care who's on the label, because I have a job to do.