I think what I'm going to do is get more balance in my life to still be able to go out and play the hard rock 'n' roll and do what I like to do in music.
I really wanted it to be organic and coming from my heart. So, I think maybe the initial thought of wanting to go in that direction, I had to wait until things happened in our world and in our country that fired me up enough where the words came out organically.
I do not knowingly kill any living thing - including insects or rodents - and I thank my food for sustaining me.
I'm not necessarily intimidated by really jocky guys. I can talk football with them, you know what I mean?
God, I always just think of myself as a jeans and T-shirt kind of person.
I have a tough time judging myself.
People are very sincere in their praise, and you can't take it lightly.
I'd like to just be a little bit more open to making mistakes and not worrying about it so much.
I think it's important to have mystique.
I've been doing this stuff for so long it's the one aspect of my life that I've paid attention to and really sort of not paid attention to the rest of it.
Performance-wise, you really need to be down in the trenches; you need to do the hard work, for a lot of reasons: To build yourself as a performer, to get a sense of the audience, to work hard and to wonder, 'Do I really want to do this?'
Pop music is not a threatening style of music.
I think I was born strong-willed. That's not the kind of thing you can learn. The advantage is, you stick to what you believe in and rarely get pushed out of what you want to do.
Other people will call me a rebel, but I just feel like I'm living my life and doing what I want to do. Sometimes people call that rebellion, especially when you're a woman.
Blackheart Records being 25 years old represents staying power and the fact that we weren't able to get a record out through conventional means, so we had to create this record company to put out our records if we wanted to be a band that had records to give out to their fans.
A lot of the songs I've recorded are songs I write.
Women are still second-class citizens.
I know music is subjective.
I think there's nothing better than seeing a three-chord straight up rock 'n' roll band in your face with sweaty music and three minute good songs.
I feel like it's my job to carry the torch.
