Rock Culture Quotes

I grew up in Southern California, so there is just a part of me that is a Hollywood rocker.

Rock n' roll doesn't change. All the idiocies and pretension continue.

I see the merit in religion, and I see the need for faith and hope and sometimes people who are more snide look at people who are religious, particularly people in rock bands, and they'll say, 'Oh that's dumb, you believe in whatever,' but I think everybody believes in something.

When I talk about rock n' roll, to me, that goes back to the beginning of the 1950s. Blue suede shoes and sideburns, man. Pink and black coloured clothes. Turn your collar up, comb your hair in ducktails. And the music was cool. It was a whole culture then - a different world.

Anything that has to do with rock seems to be on the decline. There's not a lot of rock stations or MTV anymore, you just go on Youtube.

Rock music will never die. We all know that.

Rock and roll by its nature is sexual. So girls playing rock and roll is saying to the world, "We own our sexuality." I think that pop music is sort of about "you can do what you want to me" kind of energy, while rock and roll is "I'm going to do what I want to you" kind of energy.

It's really hard to make records and concentrate and have a free mind, because I have this whole other life. If you don't have kids it's a whole other thing. I think you can be fifty and still have a rock and roll lifestyle; you can still perpetuate that.

Is Billy Idol just doing a bad Elvis pout, or was he born that way?

Rock is rock, and, rock and roll, rock is just short for rock and roll.

Now I realize that from '72 through to about '76, I was the ultimate rock star. I couldn't have been more rock star.

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

Actually, the most entitled people I've met are indie rockers and indie actors, because they really believe their press.

Rock and menopause do not mix.

I wanted to be a designer since I was a kid, and I was always attracted to the way rock stars dressed and the way their girlfriends dressed. I always thought that they were the most interesting people.

Rock isn't art, it's the way ordinary people talk.

I'm too old for Led Zeppelin.

I like there to be some testosterone in rock, and it's like I'm the one in the dress who has to provide it.

I had found The Runaways and I had seen Foxes, and I decided I was just gonna become a juvie, like Cherie Currie.

I explored rock culture and what the guitar can do though people like Jimmy Page and John McLaughlin, and the music moves away from pop.

In the 1970s, we had Carl Sagan, and he was so suave with his turtleneck and his tweed jacket. And he was, you know, he made science look cool. And in punk rock, we haven't had that. We haven't had the Carl Sagan of punk.

I don't find the business easy. The moment you start talking about the business, you start sounding like someone in Spinal Tap.

Sure, my childhood was unusual. All these eccentric, wild people frequented our home: rock stars, drag queens, models, bikers, freaks. But I was not this little rich girl. My mom and I lived in an apartment.

If you like something, rock it. If you want to rock a cape every day, go for it.

We didn't invent this - this rock n' roll thing.