Quotes

We spent an awful lot of time trying to achieve perfection as close as we can come. It's the foremost thing in both of our minds, at all times.

We had to speak out and tell the truth about us as it is. It's hell living like a pair of angels.

[In 1976] Richard is 30, and I'm 26. But the letters we got when we said we weren't virgins, read as though we had committed a crime. People must have been dumb to have believed that we were that good.

(on her brother) If he listened to music, I listened to music. It was unconscious, but I idolized him so much and we were so close even though we were three years apart.

(on her 1975 collapse) I had been on a crash diet, and I carried on losing weight afterwards, even though I began eating like mad to counteract it. I'd become stricken with nervous tension which was burning away all my energy.

People never think of entertainers as being human. When you walk out on stage the audience think, "Nothing can go wrong with them." We get sick and we have headaches just like they do. When we are cut, we bleed.

I enjoy money. Not enough people in this world are happy. I'm determined to be contented, and having money from working makes it easier for me.

It's kind of nice to be remembered by your peers and your fans, because you can achieve a lot of success and be a creep too! But we try to be nice, just normal people.

We came out right in the middle of the hard-rock period... it was hard-rock everywhere! But we were ready to make our music, you know? And it was such a turnaround, I guess it caught people by surprise.

The image we have would be impossible for Mickey Mouse to maintain. We're just... normal people.

[about her parents] They, from day one, worked like mad to get Richard and I anything we wanted. We were a middle class family, not really, we didn't have any money, my dad worked two gigs, my mom worked, and they always somehow, managed to get him a piano, but when I decided I wanted drums, they didn't know if I was becoming detached upstairs, but they went and got a brand new set, when Richard wanted a grand piano, they somehow swung it, and the whole setup was set right in the middle of the living room, and it stayed there.