Musician

I love to engage with people who come to see us.

If you're secure in yourself, and even if you're not secure in yourself, you don't need to bully.

I'm having fun opening up. Sort of struggling to get the audience into it. It's good. It makes you fight. Not fight like antagonistic. But fight for what you believe.

So it was out of necessity that Blackheart was born. I think it's great that now, 25 years later, we're not only putting out our own music, but are able to put out music by other bands. That's really exciting for us.

I think it's important to have mystique.

I feel like it's my job to carry the torch.

We always play clubs. It's not something that I feel above. Those are my favorite shows because they're intimate, they're tight, their sweaty, they're hot. You're close to the people. Those are my favorites.

People don't want to see women doing things they don't think women should do.

Pop music is not a threatening style of music.

My parents taught me I could be anything in the world I wanted to be.

My job is intense. It's very physical.

I love sports. I love animals. I love kids. I want to save the world. So how do I combine all those things? I don't know.

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.

A lot of the songs I've recorded are songs I write.

Factory farming is one of the biggest contributors to the most serious environmental problems. The meat industry causes more greenhouse gas emissions than all the cars, trucks, planes and ships in the world.

I bought one of those Learn How to Play Guitar Chords By Yourself and it shows you the diagram where to put your hands and I took that in my room, sat with my singles and learned how to play guitar.

Performance-wise, you really need to be down in the trenches; you need to do the hard work, for a lot of reasons: To build yourself as a performer, to get a sense of the audience, to work hard and to wonder, 'Do I really want to do this?'

Anyone who wants to know who I am can just read my lyrics - I've always written about who I am.

I love sports. I love animals. I love kids. I want to save the world. So how do I combine all those things? I don't know.

I grew up in a world that told girls they couldn't play rock 'n' roll.