Come For A Dream...
Dustyisms “Give a butch roar or a girlish shriek, I don’t mind who does what, sort it out for yourselves!” (To the audience of the Drury Lane concert.)
“I remember lobbing a sardine across the room where it sailed straight down the cleavage of one of the Shangri-Las. But she didn't miss a beat. She just picked it out and carried on talking."
"I wouldn't know how to handle serenity if somebody handed it to me on a plate."
"Hell, have I been a hell-raiser!"
"If I wanted to do very soulful things now, I don't think I would. I have influences but I don't think I'd try to do that here. We have our own ways. I think bands like Soul II Soul are soulful but in a different way; it's that wonderful mixture of sounds which I couldn't do. The closest I come to this on my new album (Reputation) where I sound free and happy is on "Send It To Me". It has a slight wit to it and kinda lopes along; it's also very sparse. What you have is a Womack & Womack quality. It's simplicity and was a reaction to a lot of complicated stuff. I just wanted a song that was straight ahead."
"I mostly hung out with The Ronettes who, as you know weren't Motown, and shared a dressing room with them, which was an extraordinary experience! Y'know, it was like 104 degrees in this very, very small dressing room, and all our beehives were in there - three black beehives and one white one! It was collisions constantly!" (On performing at the Brooklyn Fox in the sixties.)
"The full impact of the break-up, or the way in which it would so drastically alter my career, just didn't hit me...Then quite suddenly, when the curtain fell on that final Palladium show and I realised the Springfields were no more, I burst into tears."
"You know, I've just got to be a success to own a car like this!" (Of her Continental car.)
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