David Johansen

My father was a Norwegian tenor and my mother a New York Irish librarian.

In the late '70s, I had a band - the David Johansen band, for lack of a better name - and I started collecting, not records, but tapes from people I knew who had jump-blues records.

I've been around the block a couple of times, and the guy I am now is the guy I like to be.

I've always been very determined, ever since I was a little girl, to make my way.

It is hardly surprising that women concentrate on the way they look instead of what is in their minds since not much has been put in their minds to begin with.