Karen O Quotes

Rock and roll stars have it much better than writers when they're on a tour.

Bonnie Raitt and Lynyrd Skynyrd were two people I went on the road with.

Wherever there are rock 'n' rollers, we'll play. That's what we've been doing for more than 30 years - rock 'n' roll. It's made me everything from an honorary mayor to honorary member of a motorcycle gang.

The Runaways' audience was 90 percent male. That was kind of depressing...Why don't women-our own gender-come out and support us?

Back when I was working with the Stones and with Joe Cocker and Neil Young and Neil Diamond and all of those - 'the boys,' I call them - it was fun.

Detroit was kind of a random thing where it was like a chance to be in a rock 'n' roll movie.

I was a sort of rock journalist - whatever that is - in London in the late '60s.

The cutthroat avenues of rock 'n' roll, I am fed up with. I don't want anything to do with it.

Being on tour is a giggle.

The best rock musicians are the most exciting people in the world.

To be in a band on the road is to have anything and everything you want just by picking up the phone.

I wish the rock 'n' roll scene to be back in.

The world wants rock bands to be idiots.

Rock 'n' roll is a crazy world, and it's how things work out you can't predict.

The great thing about being on tour is that... the band plays at night and other than that we have a lot of free time.

The Manchester music scene was very male dominated.

When I was a kid, the people of my generation didn't want to be writers, they wanted to be rock stars. Rock and roll was not just entertainment, it was the center of people's lives. When I was young, it was exciting and interesting.

The bands and the roadies, love 'em and leave 'em. It's pleasure to try 'em, but trouble to keep 'em.

I don't like old people on a rock and roll stage. Me included.

Rock and roll never sleeps. It just passes out.

Rock 'n' roll never sleeps it just passes out.

Videos destroyed the vitality of rock and roll. Before that, music said, "Listen to me." Now it says, "Look at me."

Trying to seduce an audience is the basis of rock & roll.

My first ones were The Young Rascals. I made out with Dino Danelli, the drummer, in the alley behind the City Auditorium. Then I met Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young. Mitch Ryder & The Detroit Wheels. This is all way, way back in the day. Later I got in the big leagues, like chasing around The Rolling Stones. And I hid in the bus for Paul Revere & The Raiders. And The Zombies.

Anyone who tells you they got into rock'n'roll for reasons other than girls, fame and money is full of s***.