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
travel crazy too-much
Being on tour sends me crazy, I drink too much and out comes the John Mcenroe in me.
jobs cutting animal
Don't get a job in an abattoir. Don't be a butcher. The idea that people have to do these jobs for a livelihood is ridiculous. They can get other jobs. Shoplift, man. Better to be a prostitute than cut an animal's head off for a living.
school mean knowing
I was never too interested in high school. I mean, I never went to a dance, I never went out on a date, I never went steady. It became pretty awful for me. Except, of course, I could go see bands, and that was the kick. I used to go to Cleveland just to see any band. So I was in love a lot of the time, but mostly with guys in bands that I had never met. For me, knowing that Brian Jones was out there, and later that Iggy Pop was out there, made it kind of hard for me to get too interested in the guys that were around me. I had, uh, bigger things in mind.
baseball children responsibility
All these fifty-year-old guys wearing baseball caps and shorts and acting like children. It winds me up. Men don't have to take responsibility anymore. Most of the guys I know would punch me on the nose for saying this, but maybe we do have to bring back conscription.
believe animal would-be
I don't believe there is any justifiable reason for killing any animal unless perhaps if it's killing you! That would be negotiable.
play guitar want
I just want to play guitar and be in a band. Same as I always did.
real black-and-white men
Remember those black-and-white films with Frank Sinatra? Those guys looked like men and they were only 27! Listen to Otis Redding singing 'Try A Little Tenderness'. That was a man who understood what a man has to know in the world. Show me a real man now! Where are they?
dark rocks secret
I preferred rock when it was in the dark, when it was a secret between me and the audience, when it wasn't mainstream.
america tea mind
I feel displaced when I'm back in America, like a visitor. I feel like if I don't get a cup of tea I'm going to lose my mind.
jealousy lust want
In my experience lust only ever leads to misery. All that suspicion and jealousy and anguish it unleashes. I don't want those things in my life.
feminist suits bedtime
The so-called feminist writers were disgusted with me. I did my thing, and so I guess by feminist standards I'm a feminist. That suits me fine.
effectiveness goal way
The only person stopping you from doing something is yourself, and looking for excuses all the time just gets in the way of obtaining your own goals. It's like the writer who keeps getting up and straightening the pictures in the room.
racism isms matter
What characterized the whole punk scene for me in 1977 was there was no racism or sexism. It was an anarchy of -isms, and a matter of abolishing it all.
lying animal meat-industry
The meat industry spends hundreds of millions of dollars lying to the public about their product. But no amount of false propaganda can sanitize meat. The facts are absolutely clear: Eating meat is bad for human health, catastrophic for the environment, and a living nightmare for animals