Musician

Def Leppard is obviously a different band that we are, but the music work well tighter. And the audiences seem work well together too. We are opening, but we're having a good time.

Obviously, some people are thick, and they're not gonna see what they don't want to see.

Women are still second-class citizens.

The media says that equality for women has arrived, but if you look around, you still don't see girls playing guitars and having success with it.

Well, I'll tell you, I don't know how aware teenagers are of me. I think it really depends on the teenager and how well-versed in music they are and what kind of music they like.

Nobody knows what anticipation is anymore. Everything is so immediate.

I think I was born strong-willed. That's not the kind of thing you can learn. The advantage is, you stick to what you believe in and rarely get pushed out of what you want to do.

Partly, I like a bad reputation. But I also want a reputation of being a good person.

Other people will call me a rebel, but I just feel like I'm living my life and doing what I want to do. Sometimes people call that rebellion, especially when you're a woman.

For me the challenge isn't to be different but to be consistent.

I'm not necessarily intimidated by really jocky guys. I can talk football with them, you know what I mean?

God, I always just think of myself as a jeans and T-shirt kind of person.

Beyond just writing about falling in love and out of love and wanting to do certain things and going out and partying and all the things that I grew up writing about, I want to write about deeper things.

The media says that equality for women has arrived, but if you look around, you still don't see girls playing guitars and having success with it.

I sure saw a lot of kids that I'm sure didn't know a lot about us, or we were definitely new to them. The kids who came up to me afterward, we'd talk about music, sign a lot of autographs. So I'm sure we made a lot of new fans.

I'm a good person.

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.

If you really believe in yourself, you cannot listen to other people.

When I came back to it, we amicably separated from Warner Bros. I just picked up where I left off, trying to write the rest of this record. It took awhile to get out.

Aggressive, tough and defiant may describe me, but that leaves the impression I'm mean and I'm not. People expect me to have fangs.