When I'm on stage, I feel like a performer, for sure. I know people are looking at me and taking pictures and singing along, and that part's wonderful.

It seems women are expected to be so much more than men, which means we have to work that much harder. We're the ones under the microscope. We're expected to sound perfect. We're expected to look perfect all the time. We're expected to be style-setters, whereas the boys roll onto the stage in their jeans, T-shirts and baseball caps.

Every day is a new day, and you'll never be able to find happiness if you don't move on.

When I got into all the grunge stuff, I really liked Hole. I actually saw them in concert when I was a sophomore in high school. It was kind of rare to see a successful female rocker get down and dirty with the guys. And Courtney Love did. It was fun to be a fan of something different.

Music is my life, is my strong point, that's my love.

When you figure out love is all that matters after all, it sure makes everything else seem so small.

I grew up listening to Queen. They were no stranger to throwing in the unexpected and something a little more dramatic.