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

The Graces was a great experience; it's great working with women, but we weren't put together in an organic way, and I think that's why we didn't stay together. There wasn't that natural friendship.

I had a very sexual experience onstage once. But I won't go there.

I quickly learned to take anger and use it to motivate me. My sister ran away from home, and she was my world. And that was that. The guitar became my world.

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.

I don't mean that to be egotistical, but I'm not writing fluff. I'm not writing for 8-year-olds. I'm a woman and I'm a rock girl.

I was either going onstage or going into an interview or getting on a plane. You can't really feel everything fully when you don't have the time to process.