00:00Ladies and gentlemen, you've just seen a clip of Suzy Quattro in Australia at the moment, and we have great
00:05pleasure in saying, here's Suzy!
00:17Well, I always do favorite hits, because I'm not one of those artists that doesn't do that.
00:21I think it's disgusting not to play your hits for the people.
00:24I do favorite album tracks, and I always keep everything up to date, so that you'll get one from The
00:30Devil and Me, which is 221.
00:32You get one song from Face to Face, which is Katie and myself.
00:37And you get one from Freedom, which is my current album.
00:42There's a bass solo, there's a drum, I play the drums, I do a song at the piano.
00:49People get entertained at my shows, it's important to me.
00:51Because that's actually what I'm put on this earth to do, what I feel like I'm put on this earth
00:57to do, is what's to entertain, communicate, and create.
01:00And that's my modus operandi.
01:02We often hear about ageism in different industries, so I wanted to ask you if that's something you've encountered, or
01:09you think is a problem in the music industry.
01:12I have not encountered it at all, and my secret is, and I have to, there's only one way to
01:20say it, I don't give a shit.
01:22I haven't reached an age yet, I haven't, where I've gone, oh my god.
01:25But I think with rock and roll people, it's kind of become anybody's age.
01:34You know, you've got Mick Jagger out there, you've got Paul McCartney out there.
01:39All, what, eight years, I'm 76, they're in their 80s.
01:43Inglebert Humperdink, he's out there.
01:45You've got Frankie Valli, he's 90-something, he's out there.
01:48So when my husband says to me, when are you going to stop, I point all these people out, I
01:52say, wait a minute, I'm still a baby.
01:55I haven't encountered it, no, I haven't at all, but I don't hide it, and when I do my shows,
02:03I have a little talking part, obviously, with screens and all that.
02:06When I do my two-hour show, that is, and I have time for it, and the first thing I
02:11tell them is my birth date.
02:15As soon as you start thinking it's a bad thing, you're finished.
02:19You know, you're not going to be the only person in this world to not age.
02:25So why the hell should you let it bother you?
02:30You do get comfortable in your skin.
02:32I am comfortable in my skin, and I don't feel like I have anything to prove anymore.
02:37And that's the good part of it.
02:39It does bring you wisdom, brings you less tolerance, actually.
02:43You know, you do get, you just can't stand, you can't stand the bulls**t when you get older.
02:49You can stand it more when you're younger, because you have to, but as you get older, you kind of
02:54think, well, I've earned my right to be exactly who I am.
02:59I have an ego room at home that's quite famous, which I did years ago, and I've always collected, even
03:07since 14 years old, in the Pledge of Seekers, I've collected stuff.
03:10And it's all up in one room.
03:13Okay.
03:14So, except for things like this, where they make good decoration, the gold records.
03:18And you can literally go up there, you go up two flights of stairs, it's an analogy, but it's real.
03:24You go up two flights of stairs, and then there's a long corridor, and it's a very old house, so
03:29it's crooked, and you can bang your head.
03:32So to get to the ego room is not easy.
03:34So, and then on the door, it says, I had a plaque made, and it says, ego room, mind your
03:41head.
03:43And then you go in, and it's one long room, and you've got, down that end, lots of old outfits,
03:52so a big rack full of clothes.
03:53You've got a bass guitar from the Rock Hard album.
03:56You've got shelves, videos, CDs, awards everywhere, all pictures all over the wall, pictures on the ceiling, stage passes.
04:07And as you walk in, the first thing that catches your eye is on the table where the little couch
04:12is, because there's a TV that you can play CDs and videos on, because I have so many videos.
04:18But on the table, as you walk in, the first thing you see is the red book, and it says,
04:23this is your life.
04:25Wow.
04:26And it's really important.
04:27You can go in there, and you can lose yourself in your life.
04:31And I send people up there if they come over, and then you come out.
04:35That's how I keep my equilibrium.
04:38That's my ego room.
04:39And then I come out, and I close the door.
