Being a nice girl from the Mid-West, my inclination is always to give in and say yes because I want people to like me.
As you know, I was a solo singer, something I just got very much used to. Turns out I'm quite enjoying being in a band!
Living with a stammer is difficult. It's a daily uphill struggle with emotional baggage weighing you down. You can't be the person you want to be.
The small companies who feel that the majors are a threat, or are predators, will use that as an excuse for their eventual downfall. Don't blame others for your own inadequacies.
So much of the habitat destruction and pollution is based on the simple principle that we somehow have been given free license over other species to degrade the planet.
We may run, walk, stumble. drive, or fly, but let us never lose sight of the reason for the journey, or miss a chance to see a rainbow on the way.
I think I'm better than I was in my younger days, because I'm exploring deep lyrical material, and I've been sober for a while now.
I think the greatest records we've ever heard, from Zeppelin to Purple to Sabbath to The Who, were all recorded in the studio live.
I feel safe and comfortable to do that once I know that the song structure around the bass part is very interesting and it satisfies me in a compositional sense.
When I do a take, I very often try things that I haven't planned to try to see if I can pull it off.
If I start mining for opinions on hundreds of websites that have fan forums, I'll be totally distorted in my view of myself. I'll lose myself in all that.
I don't see myself as the boss. I sing and write the songs, and it would feel strange if somebody else wrote the lyrics I sang.
For the sound we produce, everybody is equally important. Each of us has a very different personality and that is what keeps Bush alive.
I quite like Low, the band from Minnesota. They're absolutely mesmerizing. I get much the same feeling from anything that Will Oldham does.
I learnt early on that your audience take the songs in the way they want to rather than the way you might want them too.
As a West Side kid fooling around with boxing gloves, I had been, for some reason of temperament, more interested in dodging a blow than in striking one.
I've never been the kind of person who would get up and wave my arms and scream and shout and say, 'Hey, listen to this, listen to this.'
I've got some real diehards down in New Zealand; I look after them and make sure they always get tickets.
I have heard something said about allegiance to the South. I know no South, no North, no East, no West, to which I owe any allegiance.
When I was four, we moved to the house on the west side of Chicago where I grew up. My earliest memories are of that first summer.
Our fans want us to be happy and if that means being married or having a girlfriend, they are okay with that. Of course, in this industry it is a bit harder to have normal relationships, but it is possible.
