21 Quotes by Patti Scialfa

Forget the press - just being a partner of somebody who's very, very famous, it's hard to keep your center and your personality intact.

There was such a lack of modern, recognizable role models for a young girl in the 1950s. I mean, 'Leave It to Beaver' didn't speak to me. That's why I latched on to music.

You drive past your old high school, and even if everybody treated you terribly, you still go take a look, don't you?

I like having the space of my own project.

When you're married to someone famous, people know you, but they're not really seeing you.

We always make a hot breakfast for the kids: oatmeal, pancakes, bacon, scrambled eggs, the whole deal. We like to have that time in the morning together as a family.

People were a little leery when I was doing the press for my last album 'Rumble Doll,' yes. It's always that thing that this is a dilettante or a pet project.

I loved a lot of different kinds of music, but for my own thing, I went for the singer-songwriters.

I did feel funny about being fair and having red hair and freckles. I did not like that because I grew up in a neighbourhood where no one had red hair. I felt very conspicuous but not in a nice way.