Chrissie Hynde

When I hear myself singing, I hear Iggy Pop and Jimi Hendrix. There's a conversational thing going on. I suppose it depends on which The Pretenders song you're listening to.

I don't think it's good to be sentimental, so I try not to be.

I don't know any guitar player, any of the real greats, who don't rate Joni Mitchell up there with the best of them.

Since Madonna is positioned as always 'cooler than thou,' we all are primed for schadenfreude if something in her fabulous life goes amiss.

I love karaoke. I love maudlin country ballads. In another life, I'd be Loretta Lynn.