For me the challenge isn’t to be different but to be consistent.
Vegan With A Vengeance is on my kitchen shelf. This fun and creative book is delicious for people like me, who don’t eat pets.
Pop music is not a threatening style of music.
I love to engage with people who come to see us.
If you are gonna live your life, just try to not be crazy, have fun but have some focus and some purpose and try to know what that is. If you don’t know now, try to figure it out.
I’m not necessarily intimidated by really jocky guys. I can talk football with them, you know what I mean?
Being onstage is everything thats good about life.
I’m really happy doing what I’m doing. I’m not looking to do anything else. I love what I do. I love music. I love playing. I love touring.
Partly, I like a bad reputation. But I also want a reputation of being a good person.
I think I look better in darker clothes. And maybe the fact that I wear black so much makes me more aware of putting people at ease.
I think what people see in me is one slice of who I am. It does permeate my life in the sense that I don’t like to be told what to do, or how to be, or how I can do it. But I’m probably a lot tamer than people would expect.
Obviously, the music and lyrics are in me, but if I let myself get in my own way, I do. I empty out and let it come, and then the music spirits take over.
Get a book, so you know where to put your fingers. Otherwise it would be tough to learn. Also you have to fight through getting callouses on your fingers because it hurts, you are pressing your fingers on metal strings, they will hurt at first until you start building up callouses.
People like to tear you down. People are always going to take shots. You’ve just got to go for it.
The better your base is, and the more you know from experience, the better off you’ll be when you try and make the big move.
I wouldn’t say no to other kinds of musical opportunities. I guess that it just depends on what it was or what it required me to do, and if I felt that it compromised my own soul.
My parents taught me I could be anything in the world I wanted to be.
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.
When you’re onstage and the audience is smiling and singing and bopping along and you’re all on the same level, it’s the best feeling in the world. It may sound dumb and corny to say it, but it’s like pure love.
Rock ‘n’ roll music is what gets me off.