After my mother died, I learned that she'd had a scholarship to the University of Nebraska, but - in kind of a tradition that females don't do things like that - her father prevented her from going. She always said that she wasn't allowed to go to college, but until she died, I never knew that she'd had this scholarship.
Since I was a kid, I've always loved hanging out with females.
In the seventies we had to make it acceptable for people to accept girls and women as athletes. We had to make it okay for them to be active. Those were much scarier times for females in sports.
Usually when you see females in movies, they feel like they have these metallic structures around them, they are caged in by male energy.
It's incredible how nature sets females up to take care of people, and yet it is tricky for them to take care of themselves.
I was seeing on the ground floor that labels weren't investing in females, and it trickled upward because I was in radio with none to play. I know that I can't change today, but what I can do is work on the culture for tomorrow.
There are some artists that don't like working with other females, which is fine. They have their own thing. I personally love being surrounded by other females.
I pray for discretion every single night, that I can see through people, see what their greater good is. Sometimes that individual 'wows' you by the eye, but when it come to heart to heart, that person's not there for you. That's not just females. That may be friends, people who come into your life just to use you for who you are.
At an early age, somehow we're programmed to view other females as threats.
I did play the guitar and sing; I was in a band called The Estrogens: three females and one very brave guy.
