We didn't want to be the girlfriends of the Beatles. We wanted to be the Beatles.
— Nancy Wilson
We've been around for awhile, had a lot of success. Got a chance to sit around and go, 'Oh, yeah, we're pretty good.'
It's the ultimate compliment to be imitated or at least be somebody's influence, for sure.
I just think it's good to have a big, living, breathing piece of music that's not just songs.
'Barracuda' is very fun to play because it's like a galloping steed of a rock song.
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.
In the case of Roadcase Royale, everyone in the band has a lot to offer as a writer and producer.
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.
Heart had originally relocated to Vancouver because Mike evaded the draft to protest the Vietnam war. We had to deal with a lot at that time - it was a tough period for the band.
Generally, I think of myself as a guitar player, but when I do find the right song to sing lead on, I try to do my best.
There have never been a lot of female guitarists out there, so most of my influences were male. Acoustically, I followed Joni Mitchell and Paul Simon. Also, John Lennon and Paul McCartney - both incredible acoustic guitar players.
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.
The Lovemongers came together because we felt kind of overinflated by the end of the Eighties.
I like playing. Guitar... on a loud rock stage... with colored lights. Everything sounds better with colored lights!
We've come through on a very strange path, and it's all somehow worked out.
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.
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.
As far as havin' someone to talk to on the road, for instance, who's not a guy - it's saved my life many times to have Ann in the same group.
I feel like I've had a lot of painful situations that I intentionally delete from my memory.
I know, in so many cases, a lot of the women who came up through the singer-songwriter, Lilith Fair era, the earlier Lilith Fair era, did say that we were influences on them.
I think what constitutes rock nowadays is people that actually play and sing. They can do the job live with no ProTools or embellishments or other recorded material.
One of the things I've heard musicians say that's true is, 'I would play for free. I would play music forever, but you have to pay me to travel.' I know we're always going to make music. The traveling part - that is the most wear and tear on any human.
If you're in a rock band, you're never too tame.
Unfortunately, the music programs are being stripped out of the schools these days. We have to change that.
One night, I remember being really sick in bed with chills and a fever when Ann came in all excited and said, 'I have these lyrics! Let me read them to you!' They were the lyrics to 'Crazy on You,' and in my fever haze I said, 'Yeah! Those are really good!'
We see people from 6 to 60 years old at the shows.
I really love singing. I love singing harmony, mostly.
Everyone makes mistakes.
One of the signature things about Heart was the acoustic guitar in a rock format, which you didn't hear that often.
I think there were a couple really good songs on 'Whirlygig.'
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.
We're not just 'ladies in rock.' We're weird people!
I saw Led Zeppelin live for the first time when I was thirteen.
We came from an era when women normally did not rock.
They're hard to come by, good producers.
I think it's important to be kind of brutally honest without making anyone else feel bad in any way, if possible.
We always wanted to do a children's book of some form or another.
Prince, I think, trained amazing musicians to bring more to any musical table they come to.
I have a Gibson Thinline that I designed the body shape of, which I used a lot on the 'Fanatic' album that I'm going to shake out.
I'm a chameleon when it comes to guitar playing and like to stretch out into different territories.
Music changes kids, and kids change the world.
I really like the Budda head with a big Orange cabinet with Celestion 30 speakers and my '63 Fender Telecaster.
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.'
Heart weren't part of a movement like grunge; we were our own kind of movement.
Our mom was a super strident, capable, and strong individual. I think because she was a military wife in the Marine Corps, she had to push back the things that she believed, and she had to really scrape and fight to have her space.
My highest score karaoke song is 'Ben,' by Michael Jackson.
'Heartless' is something Ann and I wrote together.
I don't think anyone does Rush songs except for Rush.
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.
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.