I have three adopted children with Phil, and for years I was fighting in court with him over being able to see my kids. I was always going back and forth to California, going to...

No one has their own identity like the Ronettes did back in the day.

I just want to get on stage and sing and be happy.

Stage performing is a dying art form.

I mean, Janet Jackson? She’s like Michael Jackson with hair.

The people need to feel the music.

I never tried to kill myself or anything.

There was no alcohol back then, and no drugs. I remember people bringing cakes back to us after a show, but I never even smelled marijuana back then.

I see the Ricky Martin thing, and everything is like, just packaged for this moment. Where are they going to be 10 years, 20 years from now?

They’re trying to get me to go out there and testify, but I cannot go through that again in my whole life. No way, I’d be a basket case.

I think Behind the Music is good for people like Leif Garrett and Motley Crue.

Today, they’re just up there for the money, just packaged and be gone.

At this point in my career, I’m not interested in making people rich, like publishers and writers and producers. I’ve done enough of that.

I thought the Goldmine article was real good but I do know that the discography was missing a lot of records and had some wrong information in it.

We had the skirts with the slits up the side, sort of tough, sort of Spanish Harlem cool, but sweet too.

Back 20 years ago, I was recording with Bruce Springsteen, and his producer called me and said I had to be in the studio the next day to finish the sessions, and I couldn’t. I...

I used to cry myself to sleep every night. I missed singing so much. And performing. Man, I missed it so much.

Well, first of all, they’re all about the music and all I care about in my professional career is the music.

Because people are going to want to hear more of the genuine rock ‘n’ roll. The acts I see today, they’re not rocking and rolling.

Kill Rock Stars allowed me to put out a real genuine rock ‘n’ roll record.

When I do a concert and people put their hands in the air, they’re doing it on their own.

But I don’t really like to discuss Phil anymore.

Most of the groups I worked with 30 years ago are either dead or dead broke. And it’s a shame.

When we started, we didn’t do it for the money, we didn’t do it to be packaged, all we wanted to do was rock ‘n’ roll, to have fun, and we did.

Every act I see, their whole act is choreographed. I’m sick of seeing these dancers. The only reason they have them is they don’t have enough talent to get people dancing themselves.

My honeymoon night was spent on the floor in the bathroom with my mother.