"I wasn't accepted because I didn't accept the drug culture that most of my peers were involved in. Now it's like a locked room."
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"I think most people are aware of the garbage in the tabloids and dont give them a lot of credence."
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"The Columbia years are the most sentimental for me. My parents were together through most of that time and we were a happy, sort of normal family."
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"You keep thinking that you'll never get burned, I just found me a brand new box of matches."
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"You keep lyin' when you ought to be truthin'."
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"After 50, the rock 'n' roll road is a little absurd. It's very difficult to play these little places. You're out there on a rickety old bus with no place to shower."
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"Morrissey wrote a really gorgeous song for me. I'm crazy for that man. And he thinks I'm hip!"
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"Morrissey wrote to me and said, I have a song for you and if we release it as a single, you'll be on the charts for the first time since 1972, I said, what time, where?"
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"I didn't just want to be Frank's daughter who sang Boots. I take my music very seriously and studied very hard. It's not a joke to me."
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"The one hit song that I have tremendous gratitude for is Boots, because it has a life of its own. It's like being identified with a brand name."
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"Frank's audience doesn't care if a girl singer, a comic or an organ grinder with a monkey opens the show. They are there to see HIM."
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"It would be nice to be on the charts again, nice to be recognised."
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"I was a star in Italy, Austrailia, Germany and Japan before the American stations ever paid attention at all."
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"I wasn't allowed to grow as an artist. My albums were nicer to look at than to listen to."
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"I am the daughter of the Chairman of the Board and thus, was raised with great music."
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"I have never been accepted. I'll never make the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. They're never going to let me in."
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"It's unfortunate that women feel they have to resort to something sensational... All the videos I see now are sexy and raunchy. What's the point? I don't get it?"
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"I think I've finally proven something to people who were cynical about me. Because they were cruel."
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"These boots were made for walking, that's just what they'll do. One of these days these boots are going to walk all over you."
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"I got married and basically forgot about Elvis. Then Speedway came. That was the most fun of all, to see him every day all those weeks."
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