Living Like a Runaway Quotes

“One day Edward said to me, “Lita, you can play guitar, what’s your fuckin’ problem? Just do it.” Something so simple and true coming out of the mouth of Edward Van Halen made all the sense in the world to me. Suddenly my life became clear. I felt empowered. What was I waiting for? Approval? Fuck that! Just do it. Made perfect sense to me!”
― Lita Ford, Living Like a Runaway

“People were coming to see what the fuss was all about. They didn’t know what to expect, but a lot of them ended up thinking the same thing Joe Elliott did: Fuck, these girls can really play!”
― Lita Ford, Living Like a Runaway

“And because he said it over and over again, he truly believed it and he made everyone else believe it too. Then, because everyone believed it, it started to come true.”
― Lita Ford, Living Like a Runaway

“One female reviewer said we were “girls trying to act like boys.” She got it wrong. We were girls trying to be better than the boys. And I was determined to let everyone know it.”
― Lita Ford, Living Like a Runaway

“First I found out that Sandy, the one I had bonded with the most, was a lesbian. Then I found out that Cherie was messing around with Joan.”
― Lita Ford, Living Like a Runaway

“The power and the grit that come out of heavy metal music and the way it makes people feel and act attracted me, and ever since I can remember I’ve been drawn to it. It’s more or less the attitude that I loved, and that attitude is a part of me, so I was able to relate to it more than to any other attitude in music.”
― Lita Ford, Living Like a Runaway

“you had to have dynamite in your soul to have dynamite in your guitar playing.”
― Lita Ford, Living Like a Runaway