The bass player's function, along with the drums, is to be the engine that drives the car... everything else is merely colours.

The bass and drums are the engine, and the key to good bass playing is it's not what you play, it's what you DON'T play that counts. You leave the spaces, they're more important than anything.

I've seen it [Australia] go from a lot of small towns to big towns, but I think it has found its identity in all this time... it's a very special country, I could easily live here.

I feel that whatever you put out is what you'll get back. I always put out, 'hey, hi, I'm a bass player, no bullshit,' and that's what I got back. I got the respect.

I do think fame can distort reality. I've always felt that.

I am flattered to have been the woman to have opened the door for female rockers to be accepted into the mainly male industry.

A bass should sound like a bass with the thump of the finger against the wood, like it began with stand up.