I tried to play 'Barracuda' on 'Guitar Hero,' and because you have to anticipate and push buttons, it's really counterintuitive.
I play a lot of classical music around the house.
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.
I know, in so many cases, a lot of the women who came up through the singer-songwriter, Lilith Fair era, the earlier Lilith Fair era, did say that we were influences on them.
I saw Led Zeppelin live for the first time when I was thirteen.
If you're in a rock band, you're never too tame.
I really like the Budda head with a big Orange cabinet with Celestion 30 speakers and my '63 Fender Telecaster.
We really had boundless optimism about the place of music in the culture - and in the world.
Ann and I were the main writers in Heart. We had the leadership role, and the guys in the band sometimes had a hard time with that.
The Seattle explosion was what saved rock from becoming too pompous! A great moment in music!
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.'
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!'
It's the ultimate compliment to be imitated or at least be somebody's influence, for sure.
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.
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.
We're not just 'ladies in rock.' We're weird people!
I'm a chameleon when it comes to guitar playing and like to stretch out into different territories.
Heart weren't part of a movement like grunge; we were our own kind of movement.
We came from an era when women normally did not rock.
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.
