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

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.

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.

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.

Better a little with righteousnessthan much gain with injustice.

Faith is a state of mind that can be conditioned through self-discipline. Faith will accomplish.

I act like I'm 14, if you haven't figured that out yet.

We are so afraid of silence that we chase ourselves from one event to the next in order not to have to spend a moment alone with ourselves, in order not to have to look at ourselves in the mirror.

Music is definitely my mood master. It's a must have for me on set, and in my life to inspire and motivate me.

My freind is the man who gives me a book I aint read."Abraham Linclion

The one thing that men and women have in common - they both like the company of men.

Comedy is tragedy revisited or hostility. It is mock hostility, of course, or it would be ugly; we would have a war.

I've never believed that women have some special, essentialist qualities, or were more nurturing, cooperative, and morally superior.

Art is not special sauce applied to ordinary cooking; it is the cooking itself if it is good.