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• My most important inspirational job that I do is raising those kids. That's my job. And that's where my ambition goes. But I have a life. I'm not only their mother. I'm still who I was before, I just don't get to be it all the time.

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  Mother, Jobs, Ambition

  Interview with Jancee Dunn, believermag.com. May 1, 2003.

• Of course, you're not making records in a vacuum. I'm not making them for myself. It would be nice if I could get more people to hear them. But if I have to sell my soul to the devil to do it, I won't.

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  Nice, People, Soul

  Interview with Jancee Dunn, believermag.com. May 1, 2003.

• I don't know who it is, probably some geek - said that when a female gets to a certain age, all her sexuality goes. She's not a vital person anymore. If you're somebody's mother you're not vital. This is such crap, because you're still a person. You still have all the things that you came into childbearing with and all that kind of stuff.

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  Mother, Age, Female

  Source: www.believermag.com

• I wasn't interested in fabricating things and altering what I did to make hit records.

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  Records

  Interview with Jancee Dunn, believermag.com. May 1, 2003.

• I felt I had a responsibility to do the right thing. And then I wanted to do the right thing by my family and there was no handbook.

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  Responsibility, My Family, Wanted

  Source: www.believermag.com

• Once I had kids, my whole attitude changed. I was like, "You make a spinal cord from scratch and we'll talk."

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  Attitude, Kids, Scratches

  Source: www.believermag.com

• I play ten, twelve weeks out of the year, five times a week, and I really still love to do it. But that's not what I'm interested in doing now. Even though I love it.

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  Years, Play, Twelve

  Source: www.believermag.com

• I love "Heartbreaker." "Heartbreaker" stands up for me still. It still works to me. The sentiment is still timely and it just works. But I don't want to do that again. I'm not interested in re-creating that. That was great and I'll just leave it there.

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  Creating, Want, Heartbreaker

  Source: www.believermag.com

• When you have children your life - this is my job and that's my life. So it's a totally different thing. They're my priority, they have to be, and they always will be. I have to do them first. So this always gets pushed in the back.

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  Jobs, Children, Priorities

  Source: www.believermag.com

• Everything that we do I pretty much want to be organic, so if that happens, then that's okay with me. But I'm not interested in trying to re-create what once was. That doesn't interest me; it's boring.

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  Trying, Want, Boring

  Interview with Jancee Dunn, believermag.com. May 1, 2003.

• It's really hard to make records and concentrate and have a free mind, because I have this whole other life. If you don't have kids it's a whole other thing. I think you can be fifty and still have a rock and roll lifestyle; you can still perpetuate that.

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  Kids, Thinking, Rocks

  Interview with Jancee Dunn, believermag.com. May 1, 2003.

• When I was a kid about joining the Peace Corps. It said it was "the hardest job you'll ever love." This is what parenting is, as far as I'm concerned. This is parenting. That is the friggin' Peace Corps. Because you don't love doing this - this is the thing you love the most in your life, it's the best thing you ever do.

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  Jobs, Kids, Hardest Job

  Interview with Jancee Dunn, believermag.com. May 1, 2003.

• It's so hard [to be parent] and no matter how old you get and how experienced you get you're always scared you're going to screw it up and you're going to make a mistake.

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  Mistake, Parent, Matter

  Source: www.believermag.com

• I have different reasons for the way that I react to things now that I have kids. It's not about me, it's about my children going out into this world that makes me say, "What the hell are you all doing?" I have to put them out there, and then I have to worry.

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  Children, Kids, Worry

  Interview with Jancee Dunn, believermag.com. May 1, 2003.

• I can't stand what people do to each other. I think we're brilliant as a species. I think we are amazing. I think that God is incredible, that He just gave us everything. Everything in our face. Everything for us to use. And sometimes we're such shitheads. And it makes me crazy.

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  Crazy, Thinking, People

  Interview with Jancee Dunn, www.believermag.com. May, 2003.

• I read somewhere that we are all more than we know. And I really believe that. Everybody is worth something, and think of all the amazing things that you could be to each other, to people you don't even know, of all the things that you could accomplish.

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  Believe, Thinking, People

  Interview with Jancee Dunn, www.believermag.com. May, 2003.

• I spent most of my adult life as someone's mother and the rest of my life trying to make sure that children are safe. So this to me is - we wrote Hell Is For Children in 1979.

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  Mother, Children, Trying

  Interview with Jancee Dunn, www.believermag.com. May, 2003.

• You have to be true, you have to be honest.. Don't do anything, just figure out what it is that is true to you, what makes you happiest to do and be out there. And if it doesn't work, then you just have to call it a day and go find something else. But don't make it up. Don't go out there and pretend to be something you aren't.

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  Honest, Figures, True You

  Source: www.believermag.com

• When I started it still wasn't okay to be this age and still make this kind of music. And believe me, I consider our stuff to be much poppier than - we're not on like cutting edge, that kind of thing anymore. And even though we're not doing Britney Spears music or Nsync, it's still what I consider to be pop music. So that does give you a little bit more longevity, I guess. But if somebody told me I'd be getting up there and singing "Heartbreaker" at fifty I'd laugh. So I don't know, I have no idea.

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  Believe, Cutting, Ideas

  Source: www.believermag.com

• At fifty. I thought I would be done. I thought I'd be finished by now. So I have no idea. I just leave it.

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  Ideas, Would Be, Done

  Interview with Jancee Dunn, www.believermag.com. May, 2003.

• Gays are the best, though - we just did Gay Pride in Long Beach and in Tampa. And they're the best audience. They're so enthusiastic. They come dressed up - it's really fun. They're crazy and I love them. They're sweet as can be. Even my macho husband, he has a great time, too. He's so cool, he doesn't care. He loves them.

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  Beach, Sweet, Fun

  Source: www.believermag.com