I've said it before: just being a pretty face ain't going to get you that far. It has to be about whatever the art behind it is and what the message is and what the music is, the purpose.
Black Widow' is a metaphor for this innocent young girl who gets infected with life, traumas, experiences, and the balance of light and darkness. She becomes this poised and powerful creature. That's the album.
Well, I have definitely had a very intense life and upbringing to say the least. I did have a beautiful young mom who loved me as much as she could but I still had to deal with all forms of abuse and hardships.
I love my mom. I think my mom is responsible for me loving music and being in music because she subjected it to me at such a young age.
With rock 'n' roll, Janis Joplin, Tina Turner, the Runaways, there was always that feminine spirit.
I do tend to fall to the dark side of things visually sometimes.
I'm a Sagittarius and I love adventure and new beginnings, new experiences, because it makes me feel like I'm living.
Black Widow' is definitely the darker part of me. This album is about finding the weakness inside and turning it into strength. It's about being reborn, setting yourself free and realizing the balance in everything - the dark and the light.
What kids out there who are getting bullied need to know is that it's not OK. There's a lot of reach-out programs, people that you can talk to, people that can help you figure out how to get an answer to the problem.
Everyone has their own right to their own point of view and everyone has their own perception of everything and everyone doesn't have to love me, obviously, but I just think that it's too much when people say that they want you to die and it can be so dark and mean.
I love being theatrical, we love electronics in our music, and we're not afraid to put electronics on my voice and do all these fun things.
The band likes to be different which each album, so that the listener is taken on a fascinating, but different journey each time.
Embrace who you are, and if people don't understand you, that's their own problem, that's their own insecurities. They're really the one with the problem - the people who are judging you and saying negative things to you, they are really the people with the problem, not you at all.
We are resilient beings and need to realize our incredible strengths.