My mother listened to a lot of Patsy Cline, Frank Sinatra. We have the opportunity to love all kinds of music. Music became a palate, like a smorgasbord. I was one of those kids who was totally blown away by seeing the Beatles on Ed Sullivan. So I heard a lot of real country music, not watered down country music.
I grew up in North Carolina with my grandparents who had a farm. I think we’ve got a sound that’s extremely unique, even though it’s built on who came before. So I don’t have a whole lot of control over the changes. And even your voice has changedīB: This is something that happens to all musicians and all singers if you’re going to grow. He’s turned out to be the one who’s done the most work on himself and has come the fullest circle and is the best person I know.īLVR: The genre of music you’re doing is a little different than the music you did several years ago. That turned out to be Steven, who everybody thought would be the big fuckup. I thought it would be Todd that would be my lifelong friend. I know now why they have the roles they have in my life now, as opposed to then. I know now why I didn’t marry Todd Rundgren and I didn’t marry Steven Tyler. I am meant to conquer my demons and I’m meant to surpass the handicaps. Reading it, I was interested in how you remained intact in perilous situations involving betrayal and drugs and general craziness.īB: I think it’s in my DNA. My way of acting out was “Well, OK, I’ll date Mick Jagger, then.”īLVR: You wrote a book called Rebel Heart, which was a New York Times best seller.
When you’re a young girl you might act things out in a different way. There’s nothing abnormal about not feeling OK, or feeling jealous, when the person you are with is with another person. But I find that those kinds of relationships tend to be very damaging to your psyche.
Maybe if we had been married, it would have been different. We always saw, in private and not-soprivate, other people. I just never saw myself as a taken woman very often, even when I was with Todd all those years. Why don’t you say, “Man, you had really good taste in men.” Or “That must have been really cool dating him.” You know what I mean? And the way society looks at women, it’s always “What is it about you that that man wanted to be with you?” And I’m thinking to myself, “What is it about him that would make me want to be with him?” Relationships are a two-way street.īLVR: What baffles me is that you were able to move through these relationships with these really intense people.īB: I was never married. Stop defining me stop telling me that I am this or I’m that. Tell me about that.īB: I feel like I have fought my whole life: stop calling me names. And I feel younger and freer and more inspired than I did the day I turned thirty.īLVR: You were a different kind of “woman in music” when you first started running with the rock crowd. I came down here to sing on an Eddy Arnold tribute record and through that I met Eddy Arnold’s grandson and his wife, and they became mentors and dear friends. BB: I never envisioned that I would move into a brand-new house and start a brand-new life here the year I turned sixty.
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