The girls are such a part of my life. When times are tough, we sort of pull together as like a family does - not always liking each other, but certainly love each other at the end of the day.
The first album is a special one for most bands or most artists in general. The first record is your whole life, and then after that you have a couple of months to write stuff and get it for the next record.
We're family, like it or not. I can't tell you how many times we were going to break up for this or that, and then something would just bring us back together.
All these years later there's still something magical when we play. Who would've thought when we started out that 40 years later we'd still be together and people would still be interested.
We may have broken up at the height of our fame, but it was not the height of our success.
We used to be such prima donnas.
Money can be pretty ugly.
When I left Baltimore, I told everyone, 'Next time you see me, I'm going to be a rock star.'
I just love being in this band.
Things have never been easy for us, from the beginning.
Growing up, getting older, your age - you get to the point where you're comfortable in your own skin, you know who you are.
When I was in Baltimore, I played in several different bands, doing four sets a night, two sets of originals, two sets of covers, that kind of thing.
We've had that carefree, light-hearted image of fun, fun, fun. Everyone knows it's not really like that.
Most people think that girls can't play because they're girls.
I just don't like to be called a 'woman' or a 'lady' because I don't feel like either a woman or a lady. I feel like a musician.
We made some mistakes, but we made some great strides too. Certainly we changed the way that record labels looked at women.
We showed record companies that they shouldn't be scared just because it's an all-girl band. We could play just as well as the boys.
Everything happened relatively quickly in our rise to the top. But we were like robots. We were told what to do and we just did it. We didn't have time to look inside ourselves. It was all just a constant whirlwind.
For us, gender didn't come up. We were friends who happened to play together. We never said, 'Gee, we're an all-girl band!'
To influence people to do something they love, it's a wonderful thing.
