I listen to my old records and I think, 'How did I ever get on the radio?'
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I had this old wind-up phonograph when I was a kid, and I'd listen to records. And the radio.
In the '80s, the way radio was programmed, if you didn't have a hit record you weren't going to be able to make any more records. That was it, period.
I did radio back in the era when we did radio drama.
My dad being a DJ, I heard all the hits, no matter what. My mom always had on the radio because my dad was on it.
If you had a good radio - and everybody did in those days - you could find it.
Every time I turn on the radio, I must be on the wrong song or something. But, to be honest, since I went on the road back in 1970, I didn't listen to radio music because I didn't want to subconsciously steal somebody's stuff.
I don't listen to the radio, cause I don't have a driver's license. But if I'm in L.A. or somewhere where we have to rent a car, I'll hear my songs. Sometimes I hear them when I'm in stores, and I'm still like a little kid in a candy shop: 'Oh my God, that's my song!' I don't know how that could ever get old.
I remember when I first came out as an artist, back in 2004 or 2005, the record label used to take me to all the radio stations and just have me sit in, like, their lunchroom or their conference room, and play for the whole staff. Just to introduce them to me so they would play my records.
I don't know - I don't listen to the radio that much. I really am an old-soul kind of girl.
I love the fact that 35 years later, I still hear my songs on the radio.