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

Nancy Wilson

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Music changes kids, and kids change the world.

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

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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.

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

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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.

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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.

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

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

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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.

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

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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.

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

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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.

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

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

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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.

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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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