Sonicnet.com Interview Transcript

I’ll never be a faker, but I don’t know, I guess fake people are misunderstood too cause they don’t even understand what they’re saying but (laughs) I didn’t mean that in a derogatory way, I just mean like, my dad raised me, he’s a smart-ass, so am I. He’s sarcastic, so I don’t know. Its hard to explain. But it makes perfect sense.

Pink: I watched a lot of people come up and go down and act a lot different on their way down and not understand why people didn’t wanna help them out, but yeah, I’ve always been like a, I was raised as a realist, not an optimist or a pessimist, just shoot straight through and I forget the question (laughs).

Pink: I think, yeah, my lyrics are very real and raw and true to life and that’s why I was dubbed a man hater, cause There You Go was, I wrote it and I was pretty upset and I think I had every right to be and so does he and I don’t know, I guess the truth hurts. So yeah, I definitely like to tell the truth (laughs).

Pink: Pink has become more than I ever wanted it to be. It was a stupid little nickname that I was given when I was about 13 or 14 by my friend because I’m always a tomboy, I’m always the only girl in the whole clique and when I get embarrassed, like it was a mission for my friends to try and embarrass me because I never get embarrassed , like I’m so out, there’s no shame in my game, so it was like their big mission in life in junior high school to embarrass me and they did and I turn bright Pink when I get embarrassed and there goes the name. So it was just my nickname like Junior or Shorty or something like that and so then all of a sudden I was like let me be really corny and dye my hair pink to match my name and then I liked it and I’m like aw shucks what do I do now? Now I’m really cheesy but I’m just gonna go with it, so I kept the pink hair for like 4 or 5 years and now its just like this big thing. I don’t know, but I’m all about music and that’s why I do it. I like to have fun plus I wanted to make pink a strong color because like the whole baby thing, it’s a boy, it’s a girl, blue, pink. So blue is automatically the strong color. Well pink can be a strong color too. So its kind of ironic in all those sorts of ways.

Pink: It has its advantages and disadvantages. If you’re a strong woman you’re a bitch. If you’re a woman with an opinion then you have an attitude problem. It got me kicked out of everything I’ve ever wanted to do like gymnastics and Sunday school and things like that and Brownies, never made it to Girl Scouts, but at the same time it works now because I mean I can’t stand a pushover. I am a pushover to a certain extent, that’s why I probably can’t stand it. I have a very tough exterior and a very oatmealy mushy inside so, but yeah, I think strength is definitely important. It’s a shame that what I said is true, that if you’re a young girl or a young woman and you know what you want, you tend to be looked at as belligerent or aggressive or things of that nature, but I’m tryin to change all that.

Pink: I’m afraid of being alone. I’m afraid of not being funny (laughs). Like if I can’t laugh at a situation then I get scared, but really, I’m afraid of spiders. I can deal with cockroaches, rats - I had 2 pet rats, I had 2 pet mice. I have arachnophobia. I’m afraid of sharks. I won’t go in the water. I went to Florida, my brother used to live in Daytona Beach and he went to flight school down there and he used to tell me that like all the surfers would be jumping over sharks to get to the waves and I’m like, hold on, lets put this all into perspective for a second. Why the hell are you guys battling sharks to get to waves. I don’t know, I’m very afraid of big animals with big teeth.

Just let go! Don’t take life so seriously. Have fun. Life is just very short and very precious and I think people take things to seriously, which is another reason why I think I am misunderstood, because people take me way to seriously. If I took myself as seriously as other people did I’d be in big trouble and I was like a lost kid, a lost teenager, I think a lot of us were and my biggest thing was I looked up to the Madonna’s and the Janis Joplin’s who were the strong independent figures who could get through anything and I try not to hide my past, you know everybody else around me tries to hide my past, but I try not to. I try to always be truthful about it because I mean I’ve buried 6 of my friends from overdoses and driving drunk and reality things that people don’t like to talk about and like to ignore and my thing is I’d rather talk about it and let everyone know I made it through that and now I’m here and I can talk about it and I can know that like when people come up to me “Did you hear about the new drug X-tacy” and I’m thinking to myself like yeah about 10 years ago and its not cool at all. It’s cool like maybe the first 3 times. Its not cool and that’s the kind of message I wanna get across. That girls don’t have to be dependent upon people and basically the struggles I went through I want to share, maybe throw some light on the situation, cause there’s a lot of girls out there that like really think they have to do a certain thing to be accepted, even guys, like the whole peer pressure clique thing. Like you have to be a bully to be cool, you have to smoke to be cool, you have to do drugs if you wanna hang out with these people, you have to have sex if you want the guy. I mean all these things that are totally not true. You can totally have your own crap. You can have your own life and not even have to worry about that stuff. All those things and I try to just write in my lyrics just stuff that has pissed me off or will piss someone off just to make the point. I love to make points.

Poetry and music. Definitely my medicine cause if I like, if I read my poetry from when I was 12 or 13 it really scares me. It scared my mom too. She wanted to send me away when she found it. But yeah, umm, just the expression, self expression is my medicine and that’s through my music and my poetry. If I kept it all in here I would go crazy and I would hurt someone by the things I would say, so I’d rather just write em’ down in paper, but I had to stop doin that too because people steal my journals. This girl in high school stole my journal and posted up all the papers up on the lockers and I walked in school and was reading my poetry all over the school, so that kinda scares me.

If you just want to be an entertainer and you want to be a rock star and you don’t really know what you want then definitely let other people write for you, but if you have a vision to get across and your old school then you have to definitely write your own stuff. Like at first people were shoving music down my throat and I was like OK I’m a puppet, pull my strings and I know I’m not expressing myself if I don’t feel that fire, how can I give someone else that fire if I don’t feel it inside me. So I have so much to say, yeah, it might not be the right thing to say, but I wanna say it. I have to speak for myself and as far as the video, casting, the artwork, everything, I’m completely hands on. You have to be if you want your point to get across cause people will feed you and feed you and make you the prettiest puppet, I do be the prettiest puppet, I just won’t be it (laughs).

Steven Tyler is my hero. More so after I met him then before, same with Linda Perry umm I was at Y100 which is this radio station in New York and I went up, I knew Aerosmith was performing along with the rest of us teeny boppers and I was like “Oh my god, I don’t care what I have to do, if I have to beat up security or sneak through the back, I have to meet Steven Tyler.” So I ran up to him, he was out there taking pictures on his way to the stage and I just went “Steven. I love you, Amazing, (sings) oh oh its amazing, your amazing and I love your voice and didadidadi. I just completely through myself at him. I was like he’s either going to hate me and tell security to drag me away or he’s gonna love me and he looked at me and was like “You remind me of Janis Joplin” and after that I was sold. For him to look into my eyes and just see who I loved, it just, it meant a lot to me, and after that we just clicked. He’s the wittiest, most charismatic, he says the funniest stuff. If I could have him do my interviews I would cause he’s so funny. He told me he’s gonna teach me in a year what it took him to learn in 30 so he’s been a big support system for me and I thank god for it. I thank god for it because his mind, he’s been there, he’s been there in every sense of the word. So yeah, and I just keep seeing him and seeing him and seeing him and I kept harassing him and at the N’Sync show, I opened for N’Sync last year and I knew he was there with his family and I was like let me get him with his daughter so he’ll like me and his daughter already had my CD so and umm I just kept harassing him and harassing him and then finally I was like, so when do I get to go on stage with you, and at Wango Tango he pulled me up and we did Walk This Way together and I was just, I didn’t even know the words, I was just na na na na walk this way. I had so much fun and it was, it was just rocked out and then after that we were like lets do a song, come on please, and it just happened, and he was totally for it.

I play with my puppy. I’m very like, I think probably, I read in an article one time that if they had to guess, I’m the biggest party animal in the world, and that is so opposite. Like I was done clubbing, I was clubbed out by the time I was 16. Done. Like I was the ultimate candy raver and I just couldn’t do it anymore. I make it a Blockbuster night. Me and Fredo. That’s it. I live by the beach. I play pool. I have a pool table in my house and I like to hang out with my friends, that’s it. I’m a normal, normal girl. Yes, I can party, that’s like once every 2 months.

On Hollywood:

I’m scared of Hollywood. I don’t fit in at all. I’ve always been an outcast, but I’m really like an alien here. Soon as I moved to L.A. I definitely felt like I was from outer space. Yeah, It’s a crazy place.

I want them to be like “That chick was wild, she was awesome, she told the truth.” Yeah, I just wanna be an inspiration, like Janis was for me. I’ll pick up a Janis CD and be like, that chick rocked, she went through so much and she came out, well she didn’t really come out, but she still went through a lot and she’s just inspiring. She had that fire and I want people to be inspired by the passion. Just totally, or they can be like that girl sucked. Just anything, I don’t care if they hate me or love me, just if I can promote an emotion in someone, I don’t care what it is, I just want to get in their skin and whether its good or bad…