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I grew up in a household that never talked about limitations.
I've dealt my entire career with sexist and condescending people.
It's not like I have this philosophical answer as to why I love rock.
I dare anybody to display a more amazing body of work than Tom Petty.
We don't dip our toe into religion or politics, because you can't win.
I play mostly Gibsons. In fact, they have just given me a signature guitar.
I ended up starting guitar because I didn't want to just be the lead singer.
There's always an element of truth to what I write because that's why I write.
I am holding on to every shred of femininity that I can with heels and dresses.
Deep down inside, I'm a cheeseball and still listen to Bryan Adams and all that stuff.
I got this cheap guitar, and then I fell in love with it and basically put down the keyboard.
What I really realized is that by being myself, regardless of what that means, you become a better role model.
A lot of girls come to our shows, and a lot of them are freaking adorable and want to learn how to play guitar.
I keep telling everybody that touring has now become my normal life and that normal life is like a very odd vacation.
Cinderella obviously got caught up in the hair metal scene, but they were such a blues band. And such a good live band.
If, through my own personal journey, I can inspire someone else to self-love, that would be the biggest accomplishment.
My new year's resolution is to stop making five-year plans. I stress over where I'm going to be in five years so often.
What I love about Zeppelin is that you can listen to their entire catalog and kind of see where they were at in the moment.
I like to sew, and I am into bending metal and making industrial jewelry. I sew a lot of my own clothes and customize stuff.
My musical tastes - I'm always searching for new things. I know a lot of people say they listen to everything, but I kind of do.
You can't please everyone. There's always going to be someone disappointed, so you might as well make yourself happy and Be You.
You can pick out the scariest dude on the tour and, guaranteed, he's probably a smush - I just find that so incredibly attractive.
It keeps my feet on the ground just making sure that I'm always trying to learn something new or trying to be a real guitar player.
It'd be great to have more categories in the rock and metal category - but I don't want that job, picking where everybody is supposed to go.
It doesn't matter how you're dressed onstage or what you say in your songs: that doesn't give anybody the right to invade your personal space.
In my world, before I knew about Eddie Van Halen, I was playing piano, and at that point in my teenage life, I thought he was just a guitar player.
You're so used to being on the road and having a schedule that the insanity seeps in when you're sitting at home and there's nothing going on that day.
I think there's this primal need to go to a show when you're a rock fan. And it's about that camaraderie and about that intangible feeling that we all get.
I feel like, as a girl, I would have reacted or maybe been more depressed about some of the things that would have happened in my life if I didn't have music.
I'm always trying to evolve my sound. I love the simplicity of my setup. I play Gibson guitars and Marshall amps. So it's kind of like the standard rock sound.
When you have a relationship with music, and it's that deeply a part of your life, it's so much more than a career choice for me. It's an extension of who I am.
My first Gibson was a '91 Les Paul Custom tobacco burst. I still have it - it's still amazing-sounding - but it took me a long time of saving up to get that guy!
Everybody has a line. It doesn't matter how you're dressed onstage or what you say in your songs, that doesn't give anybody the right to invade your personal space.
I have learned that you can't be high-maintenance on the road. I've groomed myself to not be high-maintenance. You have to maintain and be a girl and not become a dude.
I had, like, a keytar. I was always attracted to the guitar, but I never really thought that I could be good at it because I was trained on piano, so it was kind of a jump.
Not to get mushy, but I realized after talking to my parents what absolute guts they must have had to let their teenage daughter be in a rock band, play in bars, do all of that.
I go to a lot of metal shows when we're home. I don't know why, but it takes me back to when I was 17 and going to the local metal shows in Pennsylvania. I go right back to that mentality.
I remember one tour with two male-fronted bands, and they had a fight over who could use the bathroom first. Then they just ended up having a beef with each other for the entire rest of the tour.
I grew up with my dad's music, so my introduction to rock was Alice Cooper and Cinderella and Dio and Black Sabbath, so I was listening to a lot of dude bands - Guns N' Roses and Metallica, all that stuff.
I just got an apartment here in Nashville, and I invested in a Queen-sized bed because I'm like, "I haven't had a big bed since I was a kid." I woke up this morning on one side, like, in "coffin position."
I can count on less than five fingers the things I can do well, so I'm just going to stick to those. It's crazy; it's literally all I've ever wanted to do in life is sing and play and get out there and rock.
For me, this band and the music that I write and this touring thing that I do and playing in front of people, singing, and making a lot of noise on guitar - all that was more important than a lot of other things.
We're so humbled and lucky to be in a position where we've been a four-piece for over 15 years. We're signed to a major label. We're on our fourth record on a major label. We've won a Grammy. We've toured the world.
Over the years, it's funny: my guys will tell you and anyone that I have a problem not giving 100 percent. Because there are some nights where I probably shouldn't actually say everything or do everything I think I should do.
It's important for people to realize that music is gender-less. We are proving that every single day. On this tour, there are more women than men in the audience, and it's beautiful to see these girls own these hard-rock moments.
Even now - I'm 35 - I've been in a relationship for 15 years with a guy, and we have two full incomes and no kids, and it's hilarious. We're children, perpetually, because of this rock and roll thing. But it's still so fulfilling.
I love using lots of different pedals in the studio because you have the time to experiment with sounds. But when you're singing, fronting a rock band, and playing, you don't really want to have to think about a lot of that stuff.
I think it's less stressful to just make decisions as you go, because plans never work out, but you never run out of dreams. You have an eternal bucket list where you keep crossing things off, and keep adding things to the bottom.
I've been in the songwriting circuit as well. I've been in a couple writing camps where there are seven top writers or whatever, and they're writing songs for a young girl or a young guy that are coming up, and they're kind of nuts.
I didn't know that women go through a vocal change, which is called 'thickening'. Basically, it's like when your body gets ready for childbirth, and so it just grows in a weird way. When I figured that out, I was frustrated with it.