As Mick Jagger will tell you, performing is an aerobic work-out. I've got the bass guitar, which is the heaviest of all the instruments, and I'm a little girl, in boiling-hot leather under the lights. You have to keep the fitness level up if you want to look good up there.
— Suzi Quatro
Rock n' roll! It's the music of puberty.
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.
Len and I had parted musical ways and this was one of the problems.
I have recorded nine tracks for a new album which I financed myself and am looking for a home for.
As far as more recognition goes, I am happy with the amount of love and respect I have received from other artists and the public. Of course, I would love more, and think I deserve it.
It sounds corny, but I consider myself an old-fashioned entertainer. I could have been in variety.
I don't care what anyone says, but all children prefer their parents to be together.
Ever since I was a child, I've just had this sense that I'm connected to the spiritual world. I thought everyone else felt the same way. I can hear voices - not all the time - but when I'm with certain people, it sometimes comes through.
Rock and roll mainly but I can play passable jazz also.
Joan was one of my biggest fans, as was Chrissie Hynde.
I am flattered to have been the woman to have opened the door for female rockers to be accepted into the mainly male industry.
After moving to England I did some recording and eventually formed an English band, this was together for quite a few years with only a keyboard replacement. The band had no name, just my name.
I've always maintained that you can be sexy with your clothes on. Sexier maybe.
There comes a crossroads in every marriage where you grow together or grow apart. I outgrew Len. He wanted me to be in that leather jumpsuit for the rest of my life and do nothing else. He constrained me. It got to a point where the marriage died or I did.
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.
My feet never touched the ground. Lots of good groups with crazy and unique images. It was wild. I spent all of my time doing gigs, TV appearances, interviews, or recording. I could write a book - and probably will.
I read and write classical piano and percussion, also guitar.
I also have a big love of classical music played on piano because this is the environment I grew up in my brother being one of the great masters in this world.
A bass should sound like a bass with the thump of the finger against the wood, like it began with stand up.
