I had a blast doing the Warped Tour, but it's good to be home, for sure.

I'm not necessarily intimidated by really jocky guys. I can talk football with them, you know what I mean?

I love school. I was a great student.

I plan to stay in music. I plan to keep making records.

I think what I'm going to do is get more balance in my life to still be able to go out and play the hard rock 'n' roll and do what I like to do in music.

I've done some acting and a lot of different things, but mostly it's the music.

You know I don't care if the world thinks I'm smart or not.

One of the mistakes I made was believing that the rock n' roll genre as a genre was much more free than the whole pop or R&B scene.

People are very sincere in their praise, and you can't take it lightly.

Cutting meat out of your diet is the best thing you can do for animals and your own health.

Pop music is not a threatening style of music.

Women are still second-class citizens.

Only because The Runaways were my baby and there's no reason to get it back together except to totally have fun. If that's not the goal, then I don't want to do it.

I do not knowingly kill any living thing - including insects or rodents - and I thank my food for sustaining me.

Disharmony is natural in any band.

We were really grown up for our age and it was an incredible special band.

Beyond just writing about falling in love and out of love and wanting to do certain things and going out and partying and all the things that I grew up writing about, I want to write about deeper things.

I think I look better in darker clothes. And maybe the fact that I wear black so much makes me more aware of putting people at ease.

You want to have butterflies in your stomach, because if you don't, if you walk out onstage complacent, that's not a good thing.

Obviously, some people are thick, and they're not gonna see what they don't want to see.

Partly, I like a bad reputation. But I also want a reputation of being a good person.

Why there aren't people out there willing to have fun playing rock 'n' roll. I just don't get it.

I'm not a list person.

I don't know if I miss it per se, but I do miss the fact that there just doesn't seem to be any rock 'n' roll out there anyplace. Everything does seem kind of tame. It's even hard in Manhattan to go out and find a good band to go see.

And you have a record company behind it, this is a key too, you need people to fight for your records, at least a little bit. So if you have a great song, it's catchy, and you've got a little bit of help, I think that's all you need. But there hasn't been that in music.

I've been doing this stuff for so long it's the one aspect of my life that I've paid attention to and really sort of not paid attention to the rest of it.

You know, I have a really tough time finding new bands.

I don't like to say where I'll be in 10 years.

Blackheart Records being 25 years old represents staying power and the fact that we weren't able to get a record out through conventional means, so we had to create this record company to put out our records if we wanted to be a band that had records to give out to their fans.

Def Leppard is obviously a different band that we are, but the music work well tighter. And the audiences seem work well together too. We are opening, but we're having a good time.

I love to engage with people who come to see us.

I sure saw a lot of kids that I'm sure didn't know a lot about us, or we were definitely new to them. The kids who came up to me afterward, we'd talk about music, sign a lot of autographs. So I'm sure we made a lot of new fans.

My parents taught me I could be anything in the world I wanted to be.

So it was out of necessity that Blackheart was born. I think it's great that now, 25 years later, we're not only putting out our own music, but are able to put out music by other bands. That's really exciting for us.

So now 20 years later people want us to get together so they can take shots at all these old babes trying to get back some youth. I mean come on; I've been there. I know what the press would do.

Girls see these defined roles they're supposed to follow in life, but when I was a young child, my parents told me I could be anything.

Before I settled on music, I wanted to be an archaeologist, an astronaut, all sorts of really diverse things.

I've always got something to say.

A lot of the songs I've recorded are songs I write.

The media says that equality for women has arrived, but if you look around, you still don't see girls playing guitars and having success with it.

I was in drama, wanted to be an actor.

I think it's important to have mystique.

I want to be singing to everybody, and I want everybody to think that I'm singing to them. Guys, girls and everyone in between.

I don't know if I get recognized necessarily, though I do get looked at a lot - but I don't know if it's because of who I am, or if people just think I look weird.

I don't look good in beige.