Stop thinking you have to go to big industry to have a big life, because it's not the truth.

Mackie is an electronics recording company backing me, and they're willing to invest giving equipment to schools that I choose, and they've already started doing that.

Growing up in the Northwest, I did play in an all-girl band. I snuck into clubs. No one ever questioned or thought twice about it.

Psychology Today is probably one of my favorite magazines, Guitar, Guitar World. People.

Whatever it is that you love to do, be it collect comic books or play the guitar, that you can make a living at it, do it.

My mentoring program is pretty specific, it's about self-empowerment, about being able to find solutions through teamwork. That's one of my first goals.

It's just that only now are women coming around, and when someone as striking as Alanis or Sheryl Crow comes out, the public just needs something to compare it to.