These people shred. That's what I was saying about Nashville-you can go to an open mic night at the Holiday Inn and probably see more talented musicians than the ones touring. When we first came down here I was like, "Wow I'm glad we didn't cut our teeth down here, there's so much competition." You're being challenged constantly because you're surrounded by these amazing musicians.

Lzzy Hale

Categorized in : Night Cutting Holiday

Everybody has a line. It doesn't matter how you're dressed onstage or what you say in your songs, that doesn't give anybody the right to invade your personal space.

Lzzy Hale

space song giving

That's actually pretty tame, but the fact that it was coming from this unexpected adorable little 17-year-old, I thought I'd be getting a letter about her first rock show, but it's nothing like that - she gives me a tampon. It's a true testament to how the majority of our fan base - and I say this in the most respectful and best way I can - they're little freaks.

Lzzy Hale

adorable rocks years

You're so used to being on the road and having a schedule that the insanity seeps in when you're sitting at home and there's nothing going on that day. I remember the first time we got off one of our first big tours, I told my guys, "Go home to your girlfriends." The next day, all my guys texted me like, "Do you wanna, like, do something? Let's all go bowling. I can't hang with people that live normal lives."

Lzzy Hale

next-day girlfriend home

I just got an apartment here in Nashville, and I invested in a Queen-sized bed because I'm like, "I haven't had a big bed since I was a kid." I woke up this morning on one side, like, in "coffin position."

Lzzy Hale

queens morning kids

There's a misconception that, as you have success with a band for a long time, things get easier, and that's not necessarily true. It's harder to keep connecting with that fire that got you started in the first place when you're amongst all the politics in the business, and just having a little bit of that looming pressure.

Lzzy Hale

politics business success time

You can't please everyone. There's always going to be someone disappointed, so you might as well make yourself happy and Be You.

Lzzy Hale

please-everyone yourself you happy

If, through my own personal journey, I can inspire someone else to self-love, that would be the biggest accomplishment.

Lzzy Hale

self-love someone my-own journey

Once I started to make the transition to guitar - because I was playing keyboards when we started the band - I was trying to figure out riffs I could play without really having a lot of knowledge. And my dad ended up showing me Black Sabbath's 'Heaven and Hell,' because he knew I loved Dio.

Lzzy Hale

me guitar black knowledge

I think there's this primal need to go to a show when you're a rock fan. And it's about that camaraderie and about that intangible feeling that we all get.

Lzzy Hale

feeling go think you

I wore Chuck Taylors for a couple shows, and the second show I wore the Chuck Taylors, that was the one and only time I fell onstage. I haven't really bit it onstage in high heels yet. It will happen. It's not about if, it's about when.

Lzzy Hale

high will high-heels time

It's important for people to realize that music is gender-less. We are proving that every single day. On this tour, there are more women than men in the audience, and it's beautiful to see these girls own these hard-rock moments.

Lzzy Hale

day women music beautiful

What I really realized is that by being myself, regardless of what that means, you become a better role model.

Lzzy Hale

better myself you being-myself

It'd be great to have more categories in the rock and metal category - but I don't want that job, picking where everybody is supposed to go.

Lzzy Hale

job great go want

I didn't know that women go through a vocal change, which is called 'thickening'. Basically, it's like when your body gets ready for childbirth, and so it just grows in a weird way. When I figured that out, I was frustrated with it.

Lzzy Hale

weird women change way

When we began to tour, no one expected me to be a part of the band, so I used that as a tool, and would start the set off-stage or in the audience, as a surprise, because no one expected this little girl to get up and rock the way I do.

Lzzy Hale

me surprise girl way

I think it's less stressful to just make decisions as you go, because plans never work out, but you never run out of dreams. You have an eternal bucket list where you keep crossing things off, and keep adding things to the bottom.

Lzzy Hale

dreams think you work

My new year's resolution is to stop making five-year plans. I stress over where I'm going to be in five years so often.

Lzzy Hale

stop new year stress

Cinderella obviously got caught up in the hair metal scene, but they were such a blues band. And such a good live band.

Lzzy Hale

blues live good hair

I dare anybody to display a more amazing body of work than Tom Petty.

Lzzy Hale

amazing dare body work

I am holding on to every shred of femininity that I can with heels and dresses.

Lzzy Hale

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