I think the WWE Universe have really accepted me, because they know I'm one of them.
— Nita Strauss
The guitar player that I'm doing my solo tour with, Angel Vivaldi, he's been releasing incredible guitar albums and people just don't really know about them because instrumental guitar isn't really at the forefront of music these days.
Every band wants to play in every city. We all do.
I'm 30, and I've been touring since I was 15. So it's been a long journey to get here.
I started playing guitar because of seeing Steve Vai.
Nothing is more important to me than love.
I'm pretty easy-going and pretty happy most of the time.
I really hope that with my album, because I have a bit more of a mainstream crossover following, I really hope that I can introduce some new listeners to this world of instrumental music.
It's hard to get a start as an instrumental guitar player. It's a much quicker route to be in a band, so I was always in a band and writing songs with singers, but I always had the dream in the back of my mind to make an instrumental record.
There are no apologies for being a female in heavy metal and especially not in 2019.
All of these really strong females making names for themselves in what were traditionally male-dominated spaces. And I'm not usually one to get too hung up on the male-vs.-female side of things, but it is interesting to see the dynamic shifting and it's happening across the board. It's cool to be a part of that.
The thing that drove me, and the thing that still drives me today to stay sober is all the blessings that have come into my life since this happened.
I saw Jennifer Batten do a cool guitar solo before I ever saw any other girl do a cool guitar solo.
It's 2019. People aren't going to shows to watch a band play the song exactly like the record.
When you're your own business, and my business is called Nita Strauss Incorporated, and I am my business, so it's not like I get to stop working at 5 p.m. and go home and do other things. It's a full-time job.
You can be in the band, you can go buy your own guitar strings at Guitar Center, you can go and do everything the boys can do and you're not the oddity anymore.
The great thing about the Alice Cooper camp is that its a true family and there's definitely a reason why he's had such a long and successful career spanning over 50 years. You don't get that far by not keeping good people around you.
I might come across like kind of a show-off onstage and stuff, but I like collaborating with people.
Three of my heroes that have gotten clean and sober that I got to ask for advice were Alice Cooper, Nikki Sixx and Zakk Wylde.
I've worked my entire life to be this busy. I've worked my entire career to have this many things to do and this many emails to answer. Even when it's overwhelming, it's still a blessing.
