I figured out it was a social thing, what women were allowed to do. At a very young age, I decided I was not going to follow women's rules.

To be so superfocused and honed in on one thing can be good because then you get what you're supposed to get done, done but you also miss out on other things. I could have spent more time with my family, and a million other little things.

That was exactly why people didn't want to give us any kind of life, because we were threatening their status quo, and they just didn't want to have room for girls playing rock 'n' roll. It bothered them. First, people just tried to get around it by saying, "Oh, wow, isn't that cute? Girls playing rock 'n' roll!," and when we said, "Yeah, right, this isn't a phase; it's what we want to do with our lives," it became, "Oh! You must be a bunch of sluts. You dykes, you whores." That's what it became. Then it became a name-calling contest.

Cutting meat out of your diet is the best thing you can do for animals and your own health.

Girls see these defined roles they're supposed to follow in life, but when I was a young child, my parents told me I could be anything.

Before I settled on music, I wanted to be an archaeologist, an astronaut, all sorts of really diverse things.

In pop music, you say, 'You can do what you want to me.' Rock 'n' roll says, 'I'm gonna do what I want to you.'