I was promiscuous, I didn’t want to go to school, I didn’t assimilate with my peers, I hung out with older people.” “I was a young girl who wanted to break out and see the world, who thought she knew everything about the world. Things began to stabilize when her mother remarried, but when Brody hit her teens, it all went haywire. Her mother kicked out her unfaithful husband when Brody was 2. “I always had a natural understanding for things that are broken.”Īs a girl, she says, she was always collecting strays, perhaps to compensate for the turmoil at home. “I think he was abused, that doggy,” she says, stepping outside into the late afternoon’s blinding heat. The animal, the ball clamped between its jaws, stretches out on the floor and stares longingly at the singer, who hovers over him. “My greatest satisfaction in life,” she says, “is to be greatly underestimated and then rise above, and beat the odds into a bloody pulp.”Īfter 10 minutes of bouncing and chasing, Armstrong and the dog are spent. And that’s all they are, is accusations.”įor Armstrong, it’s just one more challenge in a life that’s been packed with them. I can’t defend myself against those accusations. The closest people to me, my family, knows what went on. “Other people’s opinions hold no relevance in my life,” she says, brandishing a longneck Budweiser. Sitting on a sofa in a bare room at the rehearsal complex, she takes a drag on a cigarette and intensifies her gaze. Outside the Distillers’ sold-out show at the Glass House in Pomona two days after the rehearsal, a kid was handing out fliers with Armstrong’s picture and the words “Money Whore.”Īrmstrong has heard it all before. She didn’t earn any sympathy by posing recently for photos in Rolling Stone playing tongue tag with her new boyfriend, Queens of the Stone Age’s Josh Homme.Īnd signing with a corporate record company isn’t the kind of thing that sits well with purist punk fans, as Courtney will tell you. Since breaking off with her husband last year, Brody has been branded as a climber who used the well-known musician as a steppingstone to stardom. She was this tiny little speck with orange hair and a pale blue dress trouncing around the stage, singing with that voice, I was totally mesmerised.When the new album “Coral Fang” comes out on Tuesday, it will be a joint venture between Warner and Hellcat, which eases the little problem of Brody’s in-progress divorce from Tim Armstrong, the leader of the highly esteemed punk band Rancid and the co-owner of Hellcat. That was the first show I’d ever seen in my life. That’s how much I loved Crocodile Dundee.”īest childhood memory “Seeing Cyndi Lauper play when I was seven-years old. I got away with it for a year before I got caught out in front of my mum. It was when I was about eight, and the film had just come out. The worst lie I ever told “That Paul ‘Crocodile Dundee’ Hogan is my father. I don’t know what it is, we just have that thing.” It’s really rare to find those people where you get hysterical, not the kind of laughter where people laugh because they’re just being nice, but the ones where you just laugh really hard – gutteral, deep, mutual laughter. The hardest I ever laughed “Is with my sister. The most dislikable celebrity I ever met “Rosanna Arquette. I always came first – I was training to become an Olympic swimmer, but then I discovered pot.” My most impressive sporting feat “Coming first in the swimming championships in Melbourne. The worst song I ever wrote “‘Oh Serena’.”
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