Pat Benatar Quotes & Sayings

I felt I had a responsibility to do the right thing. And then I wanted to do the right thing by my family and there was no handbook. — Pat Benatar

I don't care who's on the label, because I have a job to do. — Pat Benatar

I play ten, twelve weeks out of the year, five times a week, and I really still love to do it. But that's not what I'm interested in doing now. Even though I love it. — Pat Benatar

You're a heartbreaker, dream maker, love taker, don't you mess around with me. — Pat Benatar

It was very difficult when I was trying to figure out how to have a marriage and babies and do this at the same time. There was no handbook. You were making it up as you went along. — Pat Benatar

I've enjoyed every age I've been, and each has had its own individual merit. Every laugh line, every scar, is a badge I wear to show I've been present, the inner rings of my personal tree trunk that I display proudly for all to see. Nowadays, I don't want a "perfect" face and body; I want to wear the life I've lived. — Pat Benatar

At fifty. I thought I would be done. I thought I'd be finished by now. So I have no idea. I just leave it. — Pat Benatar

When the first record came out, I'd go down to radio stations pretty much every day to get the record played, and I would walk in and they'd tell us how much they loved the record, but they weren't sure how much they could play it because they were already playing a girl. — Pat Benatar

I never looked at people or singing as commodities. — Pat Benatar

'Hell is for Children' is amazing to do every night and 'Promises in the Dark' and 'Love Is a Battlefied,' of course, but my absolute favorite would be 'Heartbreaker.' It's the one that started everything, so it has a very special place in my heart. And it still rocks every night! It's so fun to do. — Pat Benatar

I don't know who it is, probably some geek - said that when a female gets to a certain age, all her sexuality goes. She's not a vital person anymore. If you're somebody's mother you're not vital. This is such crap, because you're still a person. You still have all the things that you came into childbearing with and all that kind of stuff. — Pat Benatar

When I started it still wasn't okay to be this age and still make this kind of music. And believe me, I consider our stuff to be much poppier than - we're not on like cutting edge, that kind of thing anymore. And even though we're not doing Britney Spears music or Nsync, it's still what I consider to be pop music. So that does give you a little bit more longevity, I guess. But if somebody told me I'd be getting up there and singing "Heartbreaker" at fifty I'd laugh. So I don't know, I have no idea. — Pat Benatar

Everything changes all the time, and unfortunately, everyone who knows what you do by buying records only hears a small amount of what's going on in your life. — Pat Benatar

I like Lady Gaga because I like that she pushes the envelope. — Pat Benatar

We live and learn from our mistakes, the deepest cuts are healed by faith. — Pat Benatar

I spent most of my adult life as someone's mother and the rest of my life trying to make sure that children are safe. So this to me is - we wrote Hell Is For Children in 1979. — Pat Benatar

Love and pain become one in the same in the eyes of a wounded child. — Pat Benatar

It's really hard to make records and concentrate and have a free mind, because I have this whole other life. If you don't have kids it's a whole other thing. I think you can be fifty and still have a rock and roll lifestyle; you can still perpetuate that. — Pat Benatar

You're the Picasso of pain. — Pat Benatar

I wasn't a visionary but I literally had my finger on the pulse of the women of America. — Pat Benatar

You can't change the past so don't let it haunt you. You can change the future but first you've got to want to. — Pat Benatar

You have to be true, you have to be honest.. Don't do anything, just figure out what it is that is true to you, what makes you happiest to do and be out there. And if it doesn't work, then you just have to call it a day and go find something else. But don't make it up. Don't go out there and pretend to be something you aren't. — Pat Benatar

I read somewhere that we are all more than we know. And I really believe that. Everybody is worth something, and think of all the amazing things that you could be to each other, to people you don't even know, of all the things that you could accomplish. — Pat Benatar

Of course, you're not making records in a vacuum. I'm not making them for myself. It would be nice if I could get more people to hear them. But if I have to sell my soul to the devil to do it, I won't. — Pat Benatar

People's lives change dramatically over such a long time period, and I think that if you're still vital, and you're still interested in writing and things like that, of course your music evolves and reflects where you are in your life. — Pat Benatar

We'll just play it cool, like Elvis at 19. — Pat Benatar

The great times were never as great as they seem in the rearview mirror. — Pat Benatar

When you have children your life - this is my job and that's my life. So it's a totally different thing. They're my priority, they have to be, and they always will be. I have to do them first. So this always gets pushed in the back. — Pat Benatar

Everything must change, everything must move forward. — Pat Benatar

But the soul of touring and the heart of it is basically every day is like putting up a circus tent. — Pat Benatar

When you have girl children they torture you! — Pat Benatar

You shouldn't have to pay for your love with your bones and your flesh. — Pat Benatar

There are so many young women coming up through the ranks. Adele is an amazing singer. Beyonce has great stage presence. She's just a beautiful woman. I love how everyone has just taken charge of their lives and careers. — Pat Benatar

In my early 20s, I had this idea that I was going to front a band, like Robert Plant of Led Zeppelin. I didn't just want to be the chick singing ballads about somebody breaking my heart. Everyone in the business said, 'Why don't you do what Olivia Newton-Jonn and Linda Ronstadt are doing?' But I wanted to sing as a powerful female who wasn't afraid to speak her mind or be sexual. — Pat Benatar

Once I had kids, my whole attitude changed. I was like, "You make a spinal cord from scratch and we'll talk." — Pat Benatar

Most chick singers say 'if you hurt me, I'll die' ... I say, 'if you hurt me, I'll kick your ass.' — Pat Benatar

I love Katy Perry and Lady GaGa. I think GaGa's pushing the envelope every day and I really like that. — Pat Benatar

If you're retired, it's a blessing. You know, if you want to keep working and doing what you want to do, it's not a blessing as all - it's a curse. — Pat Benatar

I wasn't interested in fabricating things and altering what I did to make hit records. — Pat Benatar

I love Katy Perry, she is a wonderful pop singer. — Pat Benatar

With the power of conviction, there is no sacrifice. — Pat Benatar

I have different reasons for the way that I react to things now that I have kids. It's not about me, it's about my children going out into this world that makes me say, "What the hell are you all doing?" I have to put them out there, and then I have to worry. — Pat Benatar

First of all, I'm pretty private about my personal life. — Pat Benatar

Love is a battlefield. — Pat Benatar

Before I put another notch in my lipstick case, you better make sure you put me in my place. — Pat Benatar

You don't want to trash what you've done; that's your history. — Pat Benatar

If at any moment of the day I ever think I'm remotely cool at all, which is hardly ever, I have two daughters who make sure that never happens. — Pat Benatar

My most important inspirational job that I do is raising those kids. That's my job. And that's where my ambition goes. But I have a life. I'm not only their mother. I'm still who I was before, I just don't get to be it all the time. — Pat Benatar

It's so hard [to be parent] and no matter how old you get and how experienced you get you're always scared you're going to screw it up and you're going to make a mistake. — Pat Benatar

Love is more than a one way reflection, stop using sex as a weapon. — Pat Benatar

Everything that we do I pretty much want to be organic, so if that happens, then that's okay with me. But I'm not interested in trying to re-create what once was. That doesn't interest me; it's boring. — Pat Benatar