We see what music can do for people. Hell, we see what music does for us! When you see thousands of people out in front of you, it's fixing their lives. It's helping. It's healing. It's bigger than the inconvenience of jealousy or emotional storm clouds.Collection: Jealousy
We always had a lot of admiration for feminists who were out there trying to change things for the better for women, who were trying to find equality in the workplace and at home.Collection: Equality
There was a lot of procrastination on Cameron's part because of the personal nature of 'Almost Famous.' There was a lot of deep, dark doubt about even doing it. I don't mind being a cheerleader, but I did reach my limit quite a few times. I do my own writing, so I understand, but I was pushed to the point of anger with the insecurity of it.Collection: Anger
I think if there's a support system in place, and you're acting adult-to-adult with a sense of unconditional love and forgiveness, only good things will come from any relationship between men and women.Collection: Relationship
The high road and positivity is never the easy way but always the best way.Collection: Best
We didn't want to be the girlfriends of the Beatles. We wanted to be the Beatles.
Music changes kids, and kids change the world.
I've been through a lot of heartache in my day, and you turn to music to prop yourself up. It's a healing thing, and it's a powerful, powerful, beautiful thing.
We get notes sent to us backstage from college students that say, 'My parents used to play your albums all the time! I grew up with you, and I love the new stuff.'
It's the ultimate compliment to be imitated or at least be somebody's influence, for sure.
'Barracuda' is very fun to play because it's like a galloping steed of a rock song.
If you're in a rock band, you're never too tame.
'Say Hello' was inspired by optimism.
As a songwriter, simplicity - what not to do, what not to play - can be the hardest thing to achieve.
I'll work my butt off to do something well.
In many ways, we might compare to The Pretenders more than others, but still, we created our own category.
What Jimmy Page did was pretty inspiring for guitar players. He married a lot of acoustic elements into hard rock. The kind of chords he used were very left of center, with a lot of dissonance - I absorbed that like a sponge. It's all over the music I write, always.
We came from an era when women normally did not rock.
I saw Led Zeppelin live for the first time when I was thirteen.
The electric guitar was a big step for me, but I didn't spend a lot of time trying to adjust. It wasn't like, 'Hey, little lady, come strap on this here big guitar.' We took it in steps as much as possible.
I'm a Katy Perry fan, and I took my kids to go see her, and it was a great show, and she really can sing, and she really can play.
We're not just 'ladies in rock.' We're weird people!
We've come through on a very strange path, and it's all somehow worked out.
I don't think anyone does Rush songs except for Rush.
We're notorious for living up to our namesake. We're all about love. That's how we roll, even when it's to a fault.
I like playing. Guitar... on a loud rock stage... with colored lights. Everything sounds better with colored lights!
'Heartless' is something Ann and I wrote together.
I think there were a couple really good songs on 'Whirlygig.'
The Lovemongers came together because we felt kind of overinflated by the end of the Eighties.
My highest score karaoke song is 'Ben,' by Michael Jackson.
One of the signature things about Heart was the acoustic guitar in a rock format, which you didn't hear that often.
I was always so jealous of a band like Fleetwood Mac, for instance, where Christine McVie would sing a whole bunch of songs even though Stevie was the obvious lead singer. It added variety to their shows.
Our mom was a super strident, capable, and strong individual. I think because she was a military wife in the Marine Corps, she had to push back the things that she believed, and she had to really scrape and fight to have her space.
Everyone makes mistakes.
There have never been a lot of female guitarists out there, so most of my influences were male. Acoustically, I followed Joni Mitchell and Paul Simon. Also, John Lennon and Paul McCartney - both incredible acoustic guitar players.
Heart weren't part of a movement like grunge; we were our own kind of movement.
I really love singing. I love singing harmony, mostly.
Generally, I think of myself as a guitar player, but when I do find the right song to sing lead on, I try to do my best.
We see people from 6 to 60 years old at the shows.
Heart had originally relocated to Vancouver because Mike evaded the draft to protest the Vietnam war. We had to deal with a lot at that time - it was a tough period for the band.
I really like the Budda head with a big Orange cabinet with Celestion 30 speakers and my '63 Fender Telecaster.
One night, I remember being really sick in bed with chills and a fever when Ann came in all excited and said, 'I have these lyrics! Let me read them to you!' They were the lyrics to 'Crazy on You,' and in my fever haze I said, 'Yeah! Those are really good!'
When you're in your twenties, your brain hasn't even finished baking, and your hormones are giving you all kinds of direction of which ways to go.
Unfortunately, the music programs are being stripped out of the schools these days. We have to change that.
In the case of Roadcase Royale, everyone in the band has a lot to offer as a writer and producer.
I'm a chameleon when it comes to guitar playing and like to stretch out into different territories.
I have a favorite blue Telecaster. It's an old '60-something, which I play at every show. That's probably my favorite all-around stage guitar.
I have a Gibson Thinline that I designed the body shape of, which I used a lot on the 'Fanatic' album that I'm going to shake out.
One of the things I've heard musicians say that's true is, 'I would play for free. I would play music forever, but you have to pay me to travel.' I know we're always going to make music. The traveling part - that is the most wear and tear on any human.
Prince, I think, trained amazing musicians to bring more to any musical table they come to.