I'd love to have a Christmas classic under my belt. It's hard to write a Christmas song.Collection: Christmas
I've lived most of my life in Manhattan, but I lived in Brooklyn for a while as a kid. I went to junior high school there. Girls in Brooklyn have to be tough - I mean real tough - just to get by. It's life in the combat zone.
I haven't always made all of the right decisions from a career perspective, but things worked out in the end.
You had to have a great voice or talent as a musician before imaging or marketing plans came into play.
In the past, I've allowed myself to record songs that I wish I had not, but agreed to for one reason or another.
It took a while for me to figure out how it all fit in, being a mother and being a woman and being a rock singer.
Scandal rarely toured after those first few hits. I want to go out and sing and connect with fans who may have never seen us live.
I'm a lead singer of a band, and that's so enough. It's not like I need to have my name on everything. The new name 'Scandal, Featuring Patty Smyth' was just to make it clear that I wasn't leaving the group.
I partnered with Headstrong because they give free and fast mental health support to our veterans who are most at risk. There is no red tape, and they get help within a day or two instead of weeks.
We shot the video for 'Broken' where both my parents grew up. There was always a strong sense of serving our country in the neighborhood - my father and all my uncles served, and most of them enlisted.
When you have a different mother, you want to be in her world. Because in mine, I didn't feel like I fit in.
Back when I first started with Scandal, I felt like I had to carry a lot of the weight because it was up to me to sell those songs.
You can't keep doing the same things when you get married and have a family. You have to slow down. You have to be responsible.
With a baby, you have to be responsible, selfless, and patient. I was never into those things. I got what I wanted. I did what I wanted. I didn't consider myself a patient person.
I don't want to bore people with stories about being in rock n' roll and being a mother. Other singers do it. I can, too. I just do what I have to do. It's not that hard. It's just different.
I don't want to lose you, but I don't want to use you just to have someone by my side.Collection: Moving On
There's a danger in loving somebody too much, and it's sad when you know it's your heart you can't trust.Collection: Heart