I guess we decided to make a new record 3 years ago when Nancy was done scoring for Almost Famous.
Ann WilsonAt that time a lot of young men didn't want to go to the war and kill. This guy that I fell in love with was one of those so he escaped to Canada and I followed him.
Ann WilsonIt was darn nigh impossible for women in rock in the 70s. There wasn't a mold if you were a woman and you were in the entertainment in the 70s. You were probably a disco diva or a folk singer, or simply ornamental. Radio would play only one woman per hour.
Ann WilsonPeople can't just listen to the music and have their own imagination and take them where they wanna go.
Ann WilsonThe thing that really got me about Janis the most, was how liberated she was. She stood in that power even though it was kind of that platform of blues of being completely tormented, that enabled her to just stand there and let it go at a time when woman were not doing that...she just came out in the completely undone, unwrapped way and I think spoke right out of a woman's soul. Directly.
Ann WilsonLife can be dangerous; just let it be! When we shake off what we perceive as boundaries, that is where the bliss really is.
Ann WilsonUse Time. Make it easy. Get your money to work for you. The key is to get in the market, as it is not about timing the market, but time in the market that matters.
Ann WilsonNo way, because there's love relationships, there's sex relationships and then there's the band.
Ann WilsonArtists make art. Singers sing. Players play. Gypsies travel. Music lights fires everywhere. It's like oxygen!
Ann WilsonBack when we were first making records, you didn't just make the music, you put a great deal of energy into the way it looked, and every word that was written on the whole thing.
Ann WilsonGetting out and staying out of debt is key. debt is the biggest barrier, a parasite to wealth.
Ann WilsonI've got two sisters and they're both married and they're both much more settled into the way things are.
Ann WilsonAll the songs that were written for that album are just all our first sophomore songs. So they're all from real life. Very sweet and very innocent.
Ann WilsonYou have to also provide a video for it, look a certain way and big hair... If you're a woman it's even more strange with fake fingernails and corsets and all this stuff that was big in the 80s.
Ann Wilson