Tink Quotes

When I got into the music business in 1976, there weren't many women on the roster. As a woman, you don't complain; you work twice as hard, and you do your job.

There have always been female artists and singers putting bands together all the time. But we were not always getting credit for that because we didn't know any better.

Coming up as a female rapper - well, a female artist in general - everything is just so black and white.

I'm the benefactor of people who are doing so much hard work championing women composers.

I think it's hard when you're a woman because the music industry is way more masculine than feminine, so you have to make your own space and fight for it.

We've done a couple of women's mags, but we tend to talk about feminism and women in the industry, which I feel more comfortable talking about. It's a more valuable discussion than, 'Oh, you're a girl in a band. What hair conditioner do you use?' I use hair conditioner, and I like talking about it. But I don't want that to be the question.

Women's music is underrepresented.

I kicked the door open, and I'm gonna hold my leg in there. I'm keeping the door open for all these amazing female singer-songwriters that are coming out.

A woman's two cents worth is worth two cents in the music business.

I want to see 10 female rappers getting regular rotation. It can't be all about a man's opinion.

I've never thought about any kind of prejudice about women in country music because I never felt like it affected me. I was fortunate enough to come about in a time when I didn't feel that kind of energy at all, and it was always my theory that if you want to play in the same ballgame as the boys, you've got to work as hard as them.

Music is a male-dominated field. Women are not always taken as seriously as we should be, so sometimes we have to put our foot down.

We were the first all-girl band that wrote and played our own stuff. You know, the odds were really against us because rock has traditionally been dominated by men.

I want to make sure in every song we write that women are given power.

I'd like to be able to get more girls to play guitar. I think with a girl playing electric guitar, sometimes it's seen a bit like a guy doing ballet. All the people I learned guitar from have been guys. There are some great female players, like Bonnie Raitt and Jennifer Batten, but very few.

It is male-chauvinistic industry, and there's still a long way to go for the female-centric genre to come to the fore.

In my country, though it is very patriarchal and male-dominated, the public enjoys women-directed movies.

It's interesting that a lot of female artists want to collaborate with me.

I was seeing on the ground floor that labels weren't investing in females, and it trickled upward because I was in radio with none to play. I know that I can't change today, but what I can do is work on the culture for tomorrow.

Guys pit female rappers against each other because female rappers - if you haven't noticed of late - are a lot more interesting than guys.

To me, hip hop will never be right until female rappers have a stronger voice in it.

Get more women producers, writers, directors. Why should we expect men to do it for us? They can't.

I think there are many more stories still to be told about women.

My mum always felt that women deserved as much as men, and should have as much power, so I suppose I opted to go into a very male-dominated arena to try and prove that.