WEBVTT - Suzi Quatro 0:00:08.560 --> 0:00:12.880 Welcome, Welcome, Welcome back to the Bob West Podcast. My 0:00:13.000 --> 0:00:17.200 guest today is the one and only Susie Quatro. Susie, 0:00:17.200 --> 0:00:19.280 glad to have you on the podcast. It's a it's 0:00:19.280 --> 0:00:21.000 a pleasure to be on you. What the last name? 0:00:21.079 --> 0:00:23.640 You know, what nationality is that name? You know how 0:00:23.640 --> 0:00:26.640 it is? The ancestors came from the old country, They 0:00:26.680 --> 0:00:29.840 hit Allis Island whatever it was, turned into something else, 0:00:30.520 --> 0:00:34.440 and it's a Jewish name, but the derivation even I'm 0:00:34.479 --> 0:00:38.839 not even sure. My grandpa came over as Rocky and 0:00:38.920 --> 0:00:41.720 he emigrated at Ellis Island and they took one look 0:00:41.760 --> 0:00:43.319 at his name and they said he was a little boy. 0:00:43.400 --> 0:00:49.760 They said, Michael Quatro done okay, once again, pronounced the 0:00:49.840 --> 0:00:55.040 name as it was before it was shortened Quatro quatroky, Yeah, 0:00:55.080 --> 0:00:58.360 and they just for four eyes and they just shortened it. 0:00:58.400 --> 0:01:01.480 So he entered America as my Quatroll. And that's the 0:01:01.520 --> 0:01:03.640 family name. And my dad told me a million times 0:01:04.000 --> 0:01:07.240 that anybody with the name Quatroll has got to be 0:01:07.280 --> 0:01:10.399 related to us. Are there a lot of Quatrolls? No, 0:01:11.280 --> 0:01:15.040 well there isn't. My family. Millions in my family, but yeah, 0:01:15.080 --> 0:01:17.600 there there's no there's not that many, and there's no 0:01:17.680 --> 0:01:20.600 real Susie qus But me, well, what about the song? 0:01:21.560 --> 0:01:26.560 I said, there's no real Susie. Cuse okay, okay, okay, 0:01:26.680 --> 0:01:29.280 how did you decide on the spelling, because there's different 0:01:29.319 --> 0:01:32.440 ways to spell Susie. Oh God, I had a T 0:01:32.600 --> 0:01:34.440 shirt made up recently and I'm going to sell him 0:01:34.440 --> 0:01:36.839 on my merch side. I hadn't made up from my crew, 0:01:37.240 --> 0:01:40.759 and it says six different names of Susie spelled wrong, 0:01:40.880 --> 0:01:43.240 all crossed out and then at the bottom and has 0:01:43.319 --> 0:01:46.080 it correct. I've been spelling. My name has been spelled 0:01:46.160 --> 0:01:49.080 every which I get s u s I E s 0:01:49.200 --> 0:01:51.800 u z y s u z i e as and 0:01:51.800 --> 0:01:56.720 and then I get quatrill quadrille. I just decided in 0:01:56.800 --> 0:02:00.320 the Pleasure Seekers, when we were all taking stage names, 0:02:00.400 --> 0:02:03.000 that I would be Susie A s u z I, 0:02:03.160 --> 0:02:06.200 soul a s o U. Well, because I did a 0:02:06.200 --> 0:02:08.600 lot of otis writing and stuff like that way back 0:02:08.600 --> 0:02:10.840 when I was fourteen. I don't know how that spelling 0:02:10.880 --> 0:02:14.840 came out, but it just looked right. And everybody has 0:02:14.919 --> 0:02:19.359 asked me, everybody, including Mickey most, what's your real name? 0:02:20.840 --> 0:02:24.680 Because it looks and sounds like a stage name, doesn't it? Yeah, Well, 0:02:24.720 --> 0:02:30.000 the question becomes many people changed their last name when 0:02:30.000 --> 0:02:34.480 they have an ethnic or hard to pronounce uh last name. So, 0:02:34.639 --> 0:02:36.919 but when it was the Pleasure Seekers, you were Susie Q, 0:02:37.080 --> 0:02:38.720 but it was still Quadr. Do you ever think you're 0:02:38.720 --> 0:02:42.440 gonna be like Susie Smith or something else? No? No, 0:02:42.639 --> 0:02:45.720 And in fact that was funny because when I got 0:02:45.760 --> 0:02:48.799 to England after I was discovered and put solo by 0:02:48.800 --> 0:02:51.639 Mickey most Um, we were sitting in his office when 0:02:51.639 --> 0:02:55.320 I first arrived. And because I have been calling myself 0:02:55.360 --> 0:02:59.079 Susie Soul always, I'm born Susan K Quadro, always Susie. 0:02:59.240 --> 0:03:01.920 And I said to me, a key, so I'm gonna 0:03:01.919 --> 0:03:03.320 have to think of I don't want to be Susie, 0:03:03.320 --> 0:03:04.760 so I have to think of a good stage name. 0:03:05.040 --> 0:03:07.720 What should be? And he said, are you kidding me? 0:03:08.360 --> 0:03:11.240 I went, what he said, sissit Quatro was about the 0:03:11.240 --> 0:03:14.040 best name I've ever heard, And I went, oh, so 0:03:14.240 --> 0:03:18.880 just be me. He said, yeah, just be you. That's good. Okay, 0:03:19.160 --> 0:03:23.440 you are sitting a room with umpteen gold records and 0:03:23.480 --> 0:03:26.720 platinum records. Where exactly are you right now? I am 0:03:26.800 --> 0:03:30.160 in the dining Actually, I call it the bragging room. Um, 0:03:30.200 --> 0:03:34.000 it's the dining room of my fifteen century. It is 0:03:34.160 --> 0:03:37.640 beat in a manor house, nine bedrooms, three and a 0:03:37.680 --> 0:03:42.480 half acres um. I've been here since nineteen eighty. I'm 0:03:42.480 --> 0:03:46.800 actually gonna be buried out there. I'm gonna be cremated 0:03:46.800 --> 0:03:50.560 and are good at my ashes? Put around a four 0:03:50.640 --> 0:03:54.480 bass guitar carved out of an old tree that died. 0:03:54.560 --> 0:03:56.960 Have you seen wood carvers how they do that? So 0:03:57.080 --> 0:04:00.480 four bass guitars coming out of the ground that I said, 0:04:00.560 --> 0:04:03.520 that's where I want my ashes with a planque. And 0:04:03.560 --> 0:04:05.360 I've been here for a long time. It's the longest 0:04:05.360 --> 0:04:09.320 I've ever lived anywhere. I love this house, absolutely love it. 0:04:09.360 --> 0:04:11.560 If I'm gonna be locked down, this is where I 0:04:11.600 --> 0:04:15.280 want to be. Okay, because even though you're American, most 0:04:15.320 --> 0:04:18.240 Americans really don't have a comprehension. So let's try to 0:04:18.320 --> 0:04:27.840 locate it. How far from London is your house? Uh? Sixty? Okay? 0:04:27.880 --> 0:04:30.680 And where it is is that like rural? Is there 0:04:30.720 --> 0:04:34.039 a town? What's there? Like? There is a town? I 0:04:34.120 --> 0:04:37.680 live in between two towns. I live fifteen minutes from 0:04:37.720 --> 0:04:41.440 a very good airport, which standstead. I live fifteen minutes 0:04:41.920 --> 0:04:45.680 there there you go fifteen minutes to around the county 0:04:45.720 --> 0:04:49.080 town of Essex. So I'm fifteen minutes away from Chelmsford 0:04:49.240 --> 0:04:52.279 and fifteen minutes away from Braintree. That way, Um, there's 0:04:52.320 --> 0:04:55.600 a great train service into London. But I'm secluded. This 0:04:55.680 --> 0:04:57.839 is what I like. I can be somewhere if I 0:04:57.880 --> 0:05:02.000 want to secluded. How much property do you have? Three 0:05:02.040 --> 0:05:06.440 and a half acres? And do you own the house outright? 0:05:07.200 --> 0:05:10.800 I bought it out right? Wow? And I bought my 0:05:10.839 --> 0:05:13.840 first house out right when I was twenty And where 0:05:13.920 --> 0:05:17.360 was that house? That was about twenty minutes from here? 0:05:17.600 --> 0:05:22.200 Because when I married my guitar player, my ex um, 0:05:22.200 --> 0:05:25.040 when we we wanted to move somewhere near one set 0:05:25.080 --> 0:05:28.360 of parents. My parents are in Detroit, so we moved 0:05:28.400 --> 0:05:31.520 more near his parents. That leaves near family, you know. 0:05:31.880 --> 0:05:33.440 And then but then we came out here. I found 0:05:33.480 --> 0:05:37.000 this house on the cover cover a big house magazine 0:05:37.000 --> 0:05:39.839 and pulled about the front there and this, you know 0:05:39.880 --> 0:05:42.720 how you get a feeling this is my house? And 0:05:42.880 --> 0:05:48.159 is there a wall a gate? There is two big 0:05:49.040 --> 0:05:52.880 brick pillars. There's a walled garden here with flowers. There's 0:05:52.880 --> 0:05:57.760 an orchard back there just beautiful with food trees and everything. Um. 0:05:58.080 --> 0:06:03.240 There's a brick pillars there too. There's three floors, nine bedrooms. 0:06:03.360 --> 0:06:10.720 On the third floor, I have my ego room. Okay, okay, 0:06:11.760 --> 0:06:14.599 you have I love it. Um. You have to go 0:06:14.680 --> 0:06:18.640 up two flights of stairs. The second flight is very precarious. 0:06:19.320 --> 0:06:21.280 You can bang your head on the ceiling. You know, 0:06:21.320 --> 0:06:24.520 it's crooked and everything. It's it's it sounds like an analogy, 0:06:24.560 --> 0:06:26.719 but it's the extra truth. And you finally get to 0:06:26.800 --> 0:06:28.880 this big, heavy wooden door at the end of the 0:06:29.120 --> 0:06:31.440 at the end of the house, and it says on 0:06:31.560 --> 0:06:34.279 the door, I had a sign made and it says 0:06:34.400 --> 0:06:39.560 Ego room. Mind your head, and you go in and 0:06:41.600 --> 0:06:48.240 this is your life book. Um. Pictures everywhere, posters, jumpsuits 0:06:48.279 --> 0:06:54.640 over here, bass guitars, seeds, videos. I mean absolutely every 0:06:54.720 --> 0:06:58.240 inch is covered with me, everything I've done from the 0:06:58.279 --> 0:07:00.919 beginning of my career up to the present day. And 0:07:00.960 --> 0:07:03.919 you kind of go in if you want to, and 0:07:03.960 --> 0:07:07.880 you enjoy and you come out and then you shut 0:07:08.000 --> 0:07:11.360 the door. And this is how I survive in this business. 0:07:11.440 --> 0:07:14.680 You shut the door. I leave my ego up on 0:07:14.720 --> 0:07:17.080 the third floor. How often do you go up there? 0:07:17.920 --> 0:07:19.840 At least twenty five times at night door. And I 0:07:19.920 --> 0:07:22.360 don't know that was a good question. I don't go 0:07:22.440 --> 0:07:25.360 up there much at all, actually not at all. Lots 0:07:25.360 --> 0:07:27.240 of times I go up to do a job if 0:07:27.280 --> 0:07:30.960 i'm writing something, because I'm on my sixth book now, 0:07:31.000 --> 0:07:34.400 and sometimes I need information, And certainly when I wrote 0:07:34.440 --> 0:07:37.960 my autobiography, if you had a black spot, you know, 0:07:38.320 --> 0:07:40.400 a memory block, you can go up there. You'd find 0:07:40.800 --> 0:07:42.960 the year on a tour book or a scrap book 0:07:43.040 --> 0:07:44.920 or something, and you could. And I really spent the 0:07:45.040 --> 0:07:47.600 light a lot of time up there then. But sometimes 0:07:47.920 --> 0:07:49.520 every now and again, you just go up and you 0:07:49.840 --> 0:07:52.880 pull out the old tapes. And when I when I 0:07:52.960 --> 0:07:55.600 let people go up there, I don't see them for 0:07:55.640 --> 0:08:02.559 two days. Okay. Now. Bill Wyman, famously of the Stones, 0:08:02.640 --> 0:08:10.800 famously collected everything. How much of your stuff do you have? Everything? Um? 0:08:10.800 --> 0:08:14.000 Oh my god. I made it a point of getting 0:08:14.280 --> 0:08:18.280 every article about me, And at first I used to 0:08:18.600 --> 0:08:20.760 put him in square books and all that. I don't 0:08:20.760 --> 0:08:22.760 do that so much anymore. But I have just about 0:08:22.800 --> 0:08:26.200 every article has ever been written on me. So many videotapes, 0:08:26.280 --> 0:08:29.040 so many videos of every show I've ever done, all 0:08:29.080 --> 0:08:32.840 the CDs, all the records, um let me see. Pictures 0:08:32.960 --> 0:08:39.360 are just awards, stage passes. Everything I used to collect 0:08:40.320 --> 0:08:44.440 when I was like fourteen, fifteen, sixteen seventeen, all the 0:08:44.480 --> 0:08:47.200 hotel room keys, and I kept him in a big 0:08:47.240 --> 0:08:52.120 hues tin waste paper basket. And then I got bored 0:08:52.160 --> 0:08:54.719 of that, so I went down to the local mailbox 0:08:54.720 --> 0:08:58.040 and poured them all in. That was bad at me. 0:08:58.120 --> 0:09:00.800 I can imagine that that that mail man when he 0:09:00.840 --> 0:09:04.080 came to get because it says it says, you know, 0:09:04.200 --> 0:09:06.120 mailer back to this address. I put them all in. 0:09:06.320 --> 0:09:08.800 I got bored with that. But I've got everything, just 0:09:08.880 --> 0:09:12.760 about everything. Okay, no one lives forever when you do 0:09:12.880 --> 0:09:14.760 move on? What's going to happen to all the stuff 0:09:14.760 --> 0:09:18.760 in the ego room? I am hoping. I've tried to 0:09:18.800 --> 0:09:20.920 set it up so it is this way that my 0:09:21.160 --> 0:09:25.280 um my son will take over the house and this 0:09:25.400 --> 0:09:29.040 house will be my legacy. This is what I want 0:09:29.080 --> 0:09:33.080 to happen. I kind of want my this is my graceland. 0:09:33.679 --> 0:09:35.920 How else can I say? You know, I mean maybe 0:09:35.960 --> 0:09:37.920 even someday people would like to come and see it. 0:09:37.960 --> 0:09:40.760 Who knows. I wanted to continue. I don't want this house, 0:09:40.760 --> 0:09:45.280 so I've put that in my will. Okay, now, many 0:09:45.400 --> 0:09:49.920 people have a family, the kids move out and they 0:09:49.960 --> 0:09:53.400 wanted downsize. Growing up, always wanted a big house, I 0:09:53.400 --> 0:09:56.640 could have one room for everything. Never quite hit that. 0:09:57.280 --> 0:10:00.240 But what's it like living with so few p ballue 0:10:00.280 --> 0:10:04.000 in such a big house. Well, it was full at 0:10:04.040 --> 0:10:06.520 one point, for it started off with just me and 0:10:06.520 --> 0:10:09.040 my ex, and then we had two kids, and plus 0:10:09.080 --> 0:10:11.200 we didn't live in nanny, so the house was full 0:10:11.640 --> 0:10:15.040 and that kind of stayed even after after we divorced, 0:10:15.240 --> 0:10:18.360 got married a year later to somebody else. Um, I 0:10:18.440 --> 0:10:21.960 always needed a nanny here because I work, and you know, 0:10:22.040 --> 0:10:25.160 my kids were little, and then we had two people 0:10:25.240 --> 0:10:27.719 staying here and living here. One was a gardener and 0:10:28.120 --> 0:10:32.120 moment was the nanny. And then finally they were old 0:10:32.200 --> 0:10:35.640 enough that I could get rid of the nanny's and 0:10:36.160 --> 0:10:39.400 my daughter moved out first. Then my son moved out, 0:10:40.000 --> 0:10:44.600 and that was not nice at first. Of course, I 0:10:44.640 --> 0:10:47.600 was rambling around this house and I oh my I 0:10:47.640 --> 0:10:50.160 hated it. Didn't even want to go to the third floors. 0:10:50.200 --> 0:10:52.520 But he used to live, my son. So what I've 0:10:52.559 --> 0:10:57.880 done now is I've made every rear dream, every single 0:10:58.000 --> 0:11:02.440 room in this house has a of Chris every single moment. 0:11:02.440 --> 0:11:05.440 Even on the third floor. I've made two of the 0:11:05.520 --> 0:11:08.280 rooms into two extra bedrooms in case I have guests over. 0:11:08.640 --> 0:11:12.199 One of them became my mother's room. She's been gone 0:11:12.240 --> 0:11:16.040 a long time, but I I ended up by accident 0:11:16.440 --> 0:11:19.319 putting a cover. She got me, putting a pillow, she 0:11:19.400 --> 0:11:21.960 got me putting pictures of her, putting a big portrait 0:11:22.000 --> 0:11:24.640 of my mom and dad, and everybody calls that. The 0:11:24.720 --> 0:11:28.160 kids call that grandma's room, so it became her room. 0:11:28.200 --> 0:11:30.480 You know. I don't know how that happened. But my 0:11:30.520 --> 0:11:34.040 son uses one room for his guitar repair room. Uh. 0:11:34.080 --> 0:11:37.760 There's another bedroom on the third floor that my granddaughter 0:11:37.840 --> 0:11:40.400 has claimed as hers. There's my ego room. The next 0:11:40.400 --> 0:11:47.120 floor there's one, two, three, four more bedrooms. Only one 0:11:47.160 --> 0:11:49.520 of them is used now, but I do have people 0:11:49.559 --> 0:11:52.240 stay over if I have guests, you know. And then 0:11:52.280 --> 0:11:54.840 down here, I've got the TV room, the laundry room, 0:11:54.920 --> 0:11:56.880 I got a patio out there, got a studio in 0:11:56.920 --> 0:11:59.920 the back, which is fantastic on the grounds. I got 0:12:00.000 --> 0:12:02.760 my dining room here and in there. In there is 0:12:02.840 --> 0:12:06.480 mys the oldest part of the house, and that's where 0:12:06.480 --> 0:12:09.439 I write and I can't write anywhere else, and I've 0:12:09.480 --> 0:12:12.920 tried it everywhere. That's my writing room. I got my guitar, 0:12:13.160 --> 0:12:15.640 even though it's my main lounge and it should be 0:12:15.640 --> 0:12:18.560 everything perfect. I've got all my guitars in there, you know. 0:12:18.679 --> 0:12:21.520 I got my pen and my paper, my sheet music, 0:12:21.559 --> 0:12:24.520 and my my white piano that's never moved since I 0:12:24.600 --> 0:12:29.840 moved in. Um, that's the creative room. That room in there. Okay, 0:12:29.840 --> 0:12:34.400 there's a lot of questions here. One do you are 0:12:34.440 --> 0:12:37.079 you the type person who's a homebody or if you 0:12:37.160 --> 0:12:40.800 go into town everybody knows you. You say, Hi, what's 0:12:40.840 --> 0:12:44.160 your forgetting COVID? For a minute before that, what's your lifestyle? 0:12:44.240 --> 0:12:50.640 Sort of like, UM, I made a choice in nineteen 0:12:51.720 --> 0:12:55.440 seventy three, and it was after the first time I 0:12:55.520 --> 0:12:58.719 was on television with my first number one can the 0:12:58.800 --> 0:13:03.280 Can and uh. We watched it, my me and my ex, 0:13:03.360 --> 0:13:05.760 and then we went out to the local public we 0:13:05.800 --> 0:13:10.320 always go for a drink, and we walked in and 0:13:10.400 --> 0:13:13.920 the place erupted. It's her, it's her, it's her, it's 0:13:13.920 --> 0:13:17.040 I went what what we had to leave? The pub 0:13:18.040 --> 0:13:21.080 never happened to me before, so I kind of thought 0:13:21.120 --> 0:13:23.840 about it started to happen and happen, it happen, and 0:13:23.840 --> 0:13:28.120 then I thought, okay, I can baseball cap ponytail, dark 0:13:28.120 --> 0:13:32.680 glasses and hide, or I can just say hi. And 0:13:32.760 --> 0:13:37.480 I chose hi. It must have happened eight times yesterday 0:13:37.480 --> 0:13:40.920 in town, five times today. And it's it's so funny 0:13:40.960 --> 0:13:42.959 because it happens the same way. Every time you're walking 0:13:43.000 --> 0:13:46.480 by and sew you, somebody will go and I'll just 0:13:46.520 --> 0:13:50.560 go yes, and they just because you know what they're 0:13:50.559 --> 0:13:53.240 gonna say, um so I say hello. Yes. Sure that 0:13:53.280 --> 0:13:55.760 They added a little, but it got a little bit crazy. 0:13:55.800 --> 0:13:59.560 I was in the post office. This has never happened before, 0:14:00.240 --> 0:14:02.480 and of course you started talking and then everybody sees you, 0:14:02.520 --> 0:14:05.120 and everybody's looking and better. It happens all that, especially 0:14:05.240 --> 0:14:07.439 when you're in a line, you know, and then people 0:14:07.760 --> 0:14:09.840 and they start they start to a whisper, look whisier, 0:14:09.920 --> 0:14:12.080 gout it out it out. Anyway, the lady next to 0:14:12.120 --> 0:14:13.960 me here, she got very friendly. She said, oh my god, 0:14:14.000 --> 0:14:15.839 oh my god. Then she was going on and on 0:14:15.840 --> 0:14:18.600 on that. She went, can I can I ask your favorite? 0:14:18.600 --> 0:14:20.360 And I thought she wanted a selfie? I said sure. 0:14:20.440 --> 0:14:22.480 She said, can I just play you some of my 0:14:22.520 --> 0:14:27.400 favorite songs from my um on my phone. So I 0:14:27.480 --> 0:14:30.440 just sit and listen to her favorite songs on her 0:14:30.440 --> 0:14:33.760 phone while the line was getting up to them and 0:14:33.840 --> 0:14:38.000 you and you can't be rude. You know you can't 0:14:38.000 --> 0:14:40.840 do that. She doesn't mean any harm. But that's the 0:14:40.920 --> 0:14:43.320 last thing I wanted to do, is listen to her 0:14:43.360 --> 0:14:47.680 favorite song. So that's actually quite funny. Does it ever 0:14:47.840 --> 0:14:51.360 get old? And are you ever upset if people don't 0:14:51.400 --> 0:14:57.520 recognize you? Um? No. In fact, I made quite a 0:14:57.600 --> 0:15:00.800 joke out of it. Sometimes, you know, I'll go into it. 0:15:00.800 --> 0:15:03.800 I do it on purpose. I'll go someplace and maybe 0:15:03.800 --> 0:15:07.120 I'm ordering something from the guy and he's taking my information. 0:15:07.280 --> 0:15:09.600 I went into an art shop just yesterday, brand new 0:15:09.640 --> 0:15:12.280 art shop, and I said, how much is that huge? 0:15:12.720 --> 0:15:14.560 What I picked out? A million and a half. I said, 0:15:14.680 --> 0:15:17.880 Jesus Christ, I got good taste. Anybody. We're talking talking, 0:15:18.480 --> 0:15:20.720 and I saw that he didn't know who I was. 0:15:21.600 --> 0:15:25.240 So as we're talking, I said, by the way, I said, 0:15:25.360 --> 0:15:28.400 I'm very famous, and he went, you are. I said, yes, 0:15:28.440 --> 0:15:30.680 I am, So this is what I do. He goes, 0:15:31.000 --> 0:15:33.400 what's your name? I said, Susy Quadro, google it. You 0:15:33.480 --> 0:15:36.440 googled it. He went, Oh my god, I said, next 0:15:36.440 --> 0:15:38.360 time I come in, know who I am. So I 0:15:38.600 --> 0:15:41.680 I do do that a lot of times. I'll see youngsters. 0:15:41.680 --> 0:15:43.240 I say, you might not know me, but you should 0:15:45.200 --> 0:15:50.040 sense of humor at all times. Okay, are you always on? 0:15:50.760 --> 0:15:54.160 You're like, you're very on in this moment. Is that 0:15:54.240 --> 0:15:57.880 who you just are? Or is it just when you 0:15:57.920 --> 0:16:01.360 know the mic is on? No? No, I'm I'm I've 0:16:01.400 --> 0:16:05.360 been told. In fact, the phrase used to describe me 0:16:05.440 --> 0:16:08.360 by people who know me best as I am exhausting. 0:16:10.080 --> 0:16:18.920 But I take that as a compliment. I Um, I'm 0:16:18.960 --> 0:16:25.640 a glass softball girl. Um. I love conversation. That's my key. 0:16:25.840 --> 0:16:30.040 I love conversation. Uh, nice glass of wine and a conversation. 0:16:30.080 --> 0:16:32.400 I'm a happy girl. I love to argue the toss 0:16:32.400 --> 0:16:34.920 into the middle of the night. You know so, but 0:16:34.960 --> 0:16:38.160 there there there is a quieter shore when nobody's around. 0:16:39.040 --> 0:16:42.920 I well, my way of being quiet. If I'm not 0:16:42.920 --> 0:16:46.080 watching a movie, which I love movies. I watched movies 0:16:46.120 --> 0:16:48.520 all the time. I'm a bit of a movie buff. Um. 0:16:49.000 --> 0:16:51.800 I will watch something my way of relaxing. I'll have 0:16:51.800 --> 0:16:55.160 agressive ryan, I'll watch who wants to be a millionaire 0:16:55.160 --> 0:16:58.000 on TV and at the same time, I'll be doing 0:16:58.120 --> 0:17:03.560 online scrabble. Who are you playing with? Who have words 0:17:03.600 --> 0:17:06.919 with friends? I mean? Are these always with friends? Who 0:17:07.000 --> 0:17:10.480 you play with? Anonymous people? Any anybody? I'll play with anybody. 0:17:10.520 --> 0:17:15.159 I just I just like to win. Are you pretty 0:17:15.200 --> 0:17:20.560 damn good? Pretty damn good? I'm I'm something like twelve 0:17:20.680 --> 0:17:23.000 or thirteen and the big you know, and lots and 0:17:23.080 --> 0:17:25.199 lots of people say I'm pretty good. I have I've 0:17:25.280 --> 0:17:27.280 learned a lot of the weird words, and you know, 0:17:27.760 --> 0:17:30.480 I love word games. Anyway, I'm one of those people. 0:17:31.359 --> 0:17:35.880 And I'm waiting for somebody to tell me the scholastic 0:17:35.960 --> 0:17:38.199 word for this talent that I have. I'm gonna have 0:17:38.240 --> 0:17:40.320 to look it up, maybe google it. You know, when 0:17:40.359 --> 0:17:43.400 you have a word wheel and it's got one letter 0:17:43.440 --> 0:17:45.720 in the center and then like cut like a pie, 0:17:45.760 --> 0:17:48.480 and like eight letters around it, and you have to 0:17:48.520 --> 0:17:51.359 make as many words as you can for letters and more, yeah, 0:17:51.359 --> 0:17:54.080 and use all the and then it makes one big word. 0:17:54.640 --> 0:17:56.840 You look at it and one big word is made 0:17:56.840 --> 0:18:01.080 out of that. I can guess it with three or 0:18:01.119 --> 0:18:05.560 four seconds, sometimes instantaneously, and I and I know there's 0:18:05.560 --> 0:18:10.000 a word for that is it? I can make that. 0:18:10.119 --> 0:18:11.920 I can make sense out of the chaos. I can 0:18:11.960 --> 0:18:14.800 put the jumbled words together. And I don't know how 0:18:14.840 --> 0:18:16.880 I do that or why I do. It's the way 0:18:16.960 --> 0:18:19.960 my brain works. It sees the word. Is there a 0:18:20.000 --> 0:18:22.520 word for that? Not that I'm aware of. But no, 0:18:22.680 --> 0:18:26.000 I'm not as good with words as you are. Let's 0:18:26.040 --> 0:18:30.160 go back to a second. You watch movies. You watch 0:18:30.240 --> 0:18:36.040 movies essentially every night. Yeah, pretty much, kind of like 0:18:36.080 --> 0:18:37.960 a routine. When I'm not on the road, of course 0:18:38.040 --> 0:18:41.400 I will watch. I'm a routine girl. Okay, to your 0:18:41.400 --> 0:18:46.439 two favorite movies, God, it's so boring Gone with the Wind, 0:18:46.520 --> 0:18:49.159 I'm sorry, I just never get tired of it. I 0:18:49.240 --> 0:18:54.840 actually know the entire dialogue of that movie, every character. 0:18:55.400 --> 0:18:57.760 My husband one time was sitting on the bed and 0:18:57.800 --> 0:19:00.040 we were watching it just because we felt like watching it, 0:19:00.240 --> 0:19:02.360 and he didn't watch the movie. He looked at me 0:19:02.560 --> 0:19:05.200 because I did every bit of dialogue. And I think 0:19:05.240 --> 0:19:07.600 my other favorite movie, it's hard to pick two. I'd 0:19:07.600 --> 0:19:11.840 say probably all about Eve. Okay. And do you tend 0:19:11.920 --> 0:19:14.960 to watch the movies over as obviously as the case 0:19:15.000 --> 0:19:17.320 with Gone with the Wind, or are you always interested 0:19:17.320 --> 0:19:21.119 in watching something new. Well, I do like to watch 0:19:21.160 --> 0:19:24.800 new movies, but I'm afraid I'm a very impatient Gemini, 0:19:25.720 --> 0:19:28.840 and it's got to grab me. It's got to grab me. 0:19:29.200 --> 0:19:31.800 And you can grab me from the titles alone. But 0:19:31.840 --> 0:19:34.760 if I start to watch a movie and they're casting 0:19:35.040 --> 0:19:37.119 whoever they've cast in the plot does and pulled me 0:19:37.160 --> 0:19:40.280 in the movies off? And yes, I do watch movies 0:19:40.320 --> 0:19:43.160 I like again and again and again. I will do that. 0:19:43.320 --> 0:19:46.080 I'm quite anal um. I'll read books I like again 0:19:46.119 --> 0:19:49.560 and again and again. Right now, idiot that I am. 0:19:49.640 --> 0:19:52.160 I asked my husband to send me the complete works 0:19:52.600 --> 0:19:56.600 of Friederich Nietzsche. And you want to talk about heavy reading, 0:19:57.480 --> 0:19:59.399 Let's go back to the beginning. What inspired you to 0:19:59.520 --> 0:20:05.440 want to read that. I have been writing a psychological book, 0:20:06.359 --> 0:20:09.520 my sixth novel, my second novel, but my sixth book. 0:20:09.960 --> 0:20:14.560 And it's all about people that meet six people that 0:20:14.560 --> 0:20:18.400 meet up better psychology class. And I'm getting very much 0:20:18.440 --> 0:20:20.880 into the mind. And so many books that I've read 0:20:20.920 --> 0:20:25.480 people mentioned this guy as being incredible, and I always wondered, 0:20:25.520 --> 0:20:27.439 what's so good about him? And I even said to 0:20:27.480 --> 0:20:31.080 my husband, because he's a German philosopher, he said, Oh, Susie, 0:20:31.080 --> 0:20:34.280 he's he's hard going and that made me money. He 0:20:34.359 --> 0:20:38.040 is hard going boy. You have to really really dive in. 0:20:39.520 --> 0:20:42.800 I don't think he was a very happy man. So 0:20:43.640 --> 0:20:47.399 what have you learned that he really can talk? He 0:20:47.920 --> 0:20:52.160 he I've learned that he's um. He finds a way 0:20:52.200 --> 0:20:59.000 of making one sentence jumping about eighteen different areas, and 0:20:59.000 --> 0:21:01.679 he finds a descript where even he finds out how 0:21:01.680 --> 0:21:04.720 to He has an adjective for an adjective. If you 0:21:04.760 --> 0:21:08.399 see what I mean? You know, okay, you but you 0:21:08.440 --> 0:21:10.200 have to do is you have to read it very 0:21:10.280 --> 0:21:14.160 slowly and take it in and I'm determined. I'm determined 0:21:14.200 --> 0:21:16.119 to do it. I've read Warren Peace, you know, so 0:21:16.160 --> 0:21:26.359 I'm one of those. Have you read an k No? 0:21:27.280 --> 0:21:30.080 I think that's the best book ever written. It depends 0:21:30.080 --> 0:21:33.240 on the translation unless knowing you you learned Russians to 0:21:33.280 --> 0:21:36.320 read it. But I literally think, you know, there's this 0:21:36.440 --> 0:21:40.560 philosophical elements. Some people skip through those. But it's just 0:21:40.680 --> 0:21:44.480 amazing how president and how easy it is to read. 0:21:44.960 --> 0:21:49.919 But you know you're talking about doing all this reading. 0:21:49.960 --> 0:21:52.640 It's well, let me go. Have you talked about psychology? 0:21:52.760 --> 0:21:57.720 Have you ever been in therapy. Um, that's one of 0:21:57.800 --> 0:21:59.640 the jobs I wanted to do if I hadn't gone 0:21:59.600 --> 0:22:02.920 into show business at fourteen. Professionally, UM, I was very 0:22:03.000 --> 0:22:06.040 much interested. I'm an art chair of psychologist. I one 0:22:06.119 --> 0:22:11.120 time went only one time, and it was after my divorce. 0:22:11.160 --> 0:22:13.560 I was with my ex for twenty years. I'm a 0:22:13.600 --> 0:22:16.320 Catholic girl. You don't divorce. I had two kids, so 0:22:16.640 --> 0:22:19.560 it really I wanted to go. It really messed me up. 0:22:19.600 --> 0:22:21.879 There was nobody else I wanted to go. And I 0:22:21.960 --> 0:22:25.880 met my future husband and we were newly married, and 0:22:25.960 --> 0:22:31.919 I I didn't want to visit. My old problems are 0:22:32.040 --> 0:22:36.120 my old failings, my my ex husband's failings on him. 0:22:36.480 --> 0:22:39.280 Do you see what I mean? Yeah? I went to 0:22:39.280 --> 0:22:42.399 see it a psychiatrist one time and I talked about 0:22:42.440 --> 0:22:45.199 this to me to him and I said, um, I 0:22:45.240 --> 0:22:49.960 always remember it. I said to him, why didn't he 0:22:50.680 --> 0:22:53.080 loved me the way I wanted him to love me? 0:22:53.119 --> 0:22:54.720 And he didn't want the divorce. I was the big 0:22:54.760 --> 0:22:56.600 love of his life. And he looked at me and 0:22:56.600 --> 0:23:00.960 he said, Susie, you went to the butchers for perfume. 0:23:01.720 --> 0:23:08.159 He didn't have it on a shelf. Wow. Wow, I 0:23:08.160 --> 0:23:10.919 thought that was brilliant, a brilliant way to explain it. 0:23:11.960 --> 0:23:14.959 But he loved me, how he could love me. Okay, 0:23:15.119 --> 0:23:17.840 did you meet and was it a romance with your 0:23:17.880 --> 0:23:21.439 new husband before you got divorced or after you got divorced? 0:23:21.440 --> 0:23:23.800 Oh my god, No, I didn't. It wasn't way. I 0:23:23.800 --> 0:23:27.440 didn't even know him. Um. I was single for a year, 0:23:28.320 --> 0:23:30.359