After moving to England I did some recording and eventually formed an English band, this was together for quite a few years with only a keyboard replacement. The band had no name, just my name.

The bass player's function, along with the drums, is to be the engine that drives the car... everything else is merely colours.

Guitar is for the head, drums are for the chest, but bass gets you in the groin

I am flattered to have been the woman to have opened the door for female rockers to be accepted into the mainly male industry.

I read and write classical piano and percussion, also guitar.

A bass should sound like a bass with the thump of the finger against the wood, like it began with stand up.

Nothing heals like love and time

Len and I had parted musical ways and this was one of the problems.

The bass and drums are the engine, and the key to good bass playing is it's not what you play, it's what you DON'T play that counts. You leave the spaces, they're more important than anything.

I feel that whatever you put out is what you'll get back. I always put out, 'hey, hi, I'm a bass player, no bullshit,' and that's what I got back. I got the respect.

As far as more recognition goes, I am happy with the amount of love and respect I have received from other artists and the public. Of course, I would love more, and think I deserve it.

I love honesty and freedom and giving. I love making, I love doing. I love being to the full, I love everything which is not sitting and watching and copying and dead at heart.

A meek fellow ... is a real godsend in any gang.

I sleep with a glass of water on the nightstand so I can see by its level if the coastal earth is trembling or if the shaking is still me.

I actually really love working with young actors because they're so responsive and instinctive, and it's a much less honed craft that they're employing.

The baresark loses all fear; his method is all-out attack, and invariably he takes his opponent with him even if he falls.

I liked a lot of the things other people liked - Jimi Hendrix, The Beatles, Van Halen, AC/DC - but if I compared it to my dad's music, there just seemed to be elements missing.

One thing I know about the rich, being rich, is that you can take money from me and tomorrow, I'm still going to be rich.

I never lie for the sake of kindness,” he murmured, smiling. “One of my many flaws.

I would not like to have a homogeneous type of film. I wanted to go to many different kinds of ways of making cinema and telling stories and watching the country.

I only work every five years. It's exhausting. I've got a family, and I want to be a really good parent, as well as a hopefully good filmmaker.