Our mom was a super strident, capable, and strong individual. I think because she was a military wife in the Marine Corps, she had to push back the things that she believed, and she had to really scrape and fight to have her space.
I know, in so many cases, a lot of the women who came up through the singer-songwriter, Lilith Fair era, the earlier Lilith Fair era, did say that we were influences on them.
Sleazy people are always in this business. They run the business, pretty much. There are a lot of barracudas.
We struck out on our own in suburbia with parents who actually helped us get where we needed to go.