We thought that's the way you were supposed to be if you were in a rock 'n' roll band. Flamboyant.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I did absolutely grow up in a world surrounded by people who were always performing and being flamboyant.
I wasn't in a lot of rock and roll bands. I was in jug bands and things when I was in school.
We had a really vast music collection and I was raised around rock'n'roll, it's just the way it was.
Some of the wise boys who say my music is loud, blatant and that's all should see the faces of the kids who have driven a hundred miles through the snow to see the band... to stand in front of the bandstand in an ecstasy all their own.
Everybody was tellin' me that I had to do something different, and I kind of agreed that I did need to vary it a little bit. I still love some rock 'n' roll too.
You wouldn't want to be in a rock band - trust me.
When punk rock came along, the one thing you were not supposed to be was musical.
They wanted to start recording rock 'n roll, and thought I had the right voice.
I grew up in a world that told girls they couldn't play rock 'n' roll.
I certainly didn't want to be in a punk rock band, because I had already been in a punk rock band. I wanted to be in a band that could do anything - like Led Zeppelin.
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