As a songwriter, simplicity - what not to do, what not to play - can be the hardest thing to achieve.

Nancy Wilson

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I feel like I've had a lot of painful situations that I intentionally delete from my memory.

memory feel like painful

Music changes kids, and kids change the world.

change-the-world music change world

The high road and positivity is never the easy way but always the best way.

road never best way

When you're in your twenties, your brain hasn't even finished baking, and your hormones are giving you all kinds of direction of which ways to go.

direction you baking brain

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.

anger nature mind dark

We're not just 'ladies in rock.' We're weird people!

rock weird just people

One of the signature things about Heart was the acoustic guitar in a rock format, which you didn't hear that often.

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Heart weren't part of a movement like grunge; we were our own kind of movement.

own like movement heart

I have endless admiration for people like Chrissie Hynde who've been out as the only girl in a band. I'm not sure that, even as a little Marine Corps brat, I would've been able to deal with that.

like band girl people

I'll work my butt off to do something well.

butt well something work

I think if there's a support system in place, and you're acting adult-to-adult with a sense of unconditional love and forgiveness, only good things will come from any relationship between men and women.

good forgiveness love relationship

We came from an era when women normally did not rock.

era rock did women

What Jimmy Page did was pretty inspiring for guitar players. He married a lot of acoustic elements into hard rock. The kind of chords he used were very left of center, with a lot of dissonance - I absorbed that like a sponge. It's all over the music I write, always.

rock always guitar music

I saw Led Zeppelin live for the first time when I was thirteen.

live first first-time time

The electric guitar was a big step for me, but I didn't spend a lot of time trying to adjust. It wasn't like, 'Hey, little lady, come strap on this here big guitar.' We took it in steps as much as possible.

step me guitar time

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.

great go see play

We've come through on a very strange path, and it's all somehow worked out.

come through strange path

I don't think anyone does Rush songs except for Rush.

rush songs except think

We're notorious for living up to our namesake. We're all about love. That's how we roll, even when it's to a fault.

fault how living love

I like playing. Guitar... on a loud rock stage... with colored lights. Everything sounds better with colored lights!

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