said
Control,
“I wanted my own identity, but at that time, my father was in charge of my life, my career, and he was my manager,” she said . “It’s hard to say no to my father, so in order to do things the way I wanted to do, I guess he would have to be out of the picture…I wanted to go on my own.” She ended up firing Joe before recording her second album, which went on to become one of the most iconic and influential albums of the ’80s.