Nancy Wilson Quotes
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Ever since I could remember, women's issues have been pretty urgent.
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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.
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There is a definite sound with all-girl bands, a good rudimentary sound, and that's what's cool and punk about all-girl bands that you still find, largely - it's really kind of primal.
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I like playing. Guitar... on a loud rock stage... with colored lights. Everything sounds better with colored lights!
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I've always been a little bit in the background as a singer and even as an acoustic-guitar player, although I crank it up and rock with my Marshall stacks, too.
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There's nothing quite as raw and honest as one person and one instrument.
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I saw Led Zeppelin live for the first time when I was thirteen.
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I was always so jealous of a band like Fleetwood Mac, for instance, where Christine McVie would sing a whole bunch of songs even though Stevie was the obvious lead singer. It added variety to their shows.
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I play a lot of classical music around the house.
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My favorite acoustic is the Nancy Wilson Signature Martin.
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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.
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We don't really intentionally try to sound like ourselves. I think that would be overthinking.
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We're trying to elevate humanity and not preach to humanity in the way we approach our art. We're always just trying to get a good party going.
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We didn't want to be the girlfriends of the Beatles. We wanted to be the Beatles.
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I'm a Katy Perry fan, and I took my kids to go see her, and it was a great show, and she really can sing, and she really can play.
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We really had boundless optimism about the place of music in the culture - and in the world.
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There was a lot of procrastination on Cameron's part because of the personal nature of 'Almost Famous.' There was a lot of deep, dark doubt about even doing it. I don't mind being a cheerleader, but I did reach my limit quite a few times. I do my own writing, so I understand, but I was pushed to the point of anger with the insecurity of it.
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Sleazy people are always in this business. They run the business, pretty much. There are a lot of barracudas.
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We always had a lot of admiration for feminists who were out there trying to change things for the better for women, who were trying to find equality in the workplace and at home.
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We're not just 'ladies in rock.' We're weird people!
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In many ways, we might compare to The Pretenders more than others, but still, we created our own category.
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We always wanted to do a children's book of some form or another.
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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.
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We came from an era when women normally did not rock.