Pat Benatar Quotes

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.

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.

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

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

You're the Picasso of pain.

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

With the power of conviction, there is no sacrifice.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

I like Lady Gaga because I like that she pushes the envelope.

Everything must change, everything must move forward.

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.

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

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.

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

Love is a battlefield.

We can't afford to be innocent, stand up and face the enemy. It's a do or die situation, we will be invincible.

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.

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.

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

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

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

I never looked at people or singing as commodities.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

With the power of conviction there is no sacrifice.