Suzi Quatro has called her absence from the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame "absolutely crazy" — but says she takes comfort in the company of the similarly overlooked. "It is absolutely crazy I'm not in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame," the 76-year-old rocker told The Guardian. "But I'm in good company!"

Quatro, speaking in a Q&A published by the paper, was promoting her new album, Freedom. The title track interpolates "The Girl Can't Help It," the 1956 rock-and-roll standard written by Bobby Troup and made famous by Little Richard.

Asked whether she plans to keep rocking "until they take you out in a box," Quatro answered with a story she has told for more than four decades — and updated it once she passed retirement age herself.

"When I was 35, a journalist stupidly asked me, 'When are you going to retire?'" Quatro recalled. "I said, 'I will retire when I go on stage, turn my back on the audience, shake my ass, and there's silence.'"

The line stuck. "This followed me my whole career," she said. "So when I got to 65, I said, 'I will retire when I go on stage, turn my back on the audience and my ass shakes by itself.'"

The exchange is characteristic of an artist who has never softened her stage persona for anyone. At 76, Quatro is releasing new music, not reminiscing about the old — and her reworked retirement line, now eleven years old itself, suggests the question of quitting has effectively been closed since she turned 65.

The Guardian interview, formatted as its "10 chaotic questions" feature, also touched on Quatro's pre-gig routine, the one reality show she would consider appearing on, and who she would cast as herself in a film about her life — details behind the outlet's paywall in the continuation of the piece.

What is on the record is already revealing. The album title, Freedom, paired with an interpolation of "The Girl Can't Help It," reads as a statement of intent from a performer who has spent five decades answering the retirement question with a joke and a punchline about her own backside.

The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame remark, delivered with a laugh but no less pointed for it, is the latest salvo in a long-running gripe. Quatro — a pioneering bass-playing frontwoman whose 1970s run of hits helped open the door for women in rock — has long noted the institution has never inducted her. Her verdict this time is blunt: crazy, but she is not alone in the snub.

With Freedom out now and the singer showing no sign of slowing down, the Hall of Fame may find the decision harder to defend with each passing year — and each new Quatro release.