I was inspired to play electric guitar from listening to a lot of Carlos Santana, Stevie Ray Vaughan, and B.B. King, and that's always been the kind of music that I gravitate toward.
Eric Clapton was such a great player. He sounds like he's Freddie King or someone like that. He plays the roots of blues and Delta blues. He really affected me with the way that he plays, because he never really plays that many notes.
I think you can hear the Delta blues thing in something like the intro to 'Heaven in This Hell,' which has that down-home acoustic riff.
My dad used to listen to Jimi Hendrix and Eric Clapton, and my mom liked Michael Bolton and Roy Orbison. She was pretty big into country music, too. So there was a wealth of music being played in the house, and I kind of took it all in.
I'm a rock/blues guitar player. I'm not wanting to be a pop star or anything.
'Walk With Me' was written really fast, and that one is about togetherness.
Being a female guitar player back in school wasn't great, and I had to change schools so many times. The male drummers and bass players thought it was cool, but male guitar players said, 'It's a guy's thing. You should be doing something else, like playing the harp.'
I aim to inspire a bunch of female guitar players to get out there and take it seriously and never give up.
Santana is the reason I play guitar - I studied his style so much, I actually wore out the video tapes.
I was the only kid reading guitar magazines at the back of the classroom.
I like collecting chickens.
It was pretty insane to play the Grammy Awards and looking out in the audience and seeing rock royalty - Bono and Paul McCartney. It was crazy.
When you're up on stage, especially being a female guitar player in a male-dominated field, if they just see you're into it, and it's your passion, and you're just giving it your all - it's not, like, an accessory - then it's all cool.
I will literally have a whole pot of coffee to myself.
Playing Michael Jackson's memorial service was one of the hardest things to do because it was literally a few days after he had passed, and Kenny Ortega, who was directing it all, was like 'You're gonna come out and sing.' So not only was I completely shaken up, I didn't know how I was gonna get through it.
I've had pigeons, doves, mice. I had a cat, dogs.
The She Rocks Awards does so much for women in music, and I'm excited to be a part of it.
Success has been a gradual thing; it hasn't been overnight. So I appreciate everything and never take it for granted.
You want a solo to be structured, a song within a song, but you want it to sound like it's the first time you're playing it, too.
I've been playing electric guitar since I was 11, and I love the blues.
