Ann Wilson

“Rock evolved out of rebellion, so when you turn on the Billboard Awards or something like the Grammys, and there's no rock on there, that's a good sign - because that means that rock is not welcome inside of a pop format.”

“We had always been a real band; Heart was never a construct.”

“Heart's always been sort of like a cockroach. You can set off a bomb, and it'll still be alive underneath.”

“I would be on dates with guys, and the radio would be on, and if the Moody Blues song came on I couldn't concentrate on the guy; I would go straight into the music.”

“Back when we were first making records, you didn't just make the music, you put a great deal of energy into the way it looked, and every word that was written on the whole thing.”

“I guess we decided to make a new record 3 years ago when Nancy was done scoring for Almost Famous.”

“I don't think we'll ever use the same sound techniques.”

“Romantic love is just one aspect of love.”

“When 'Quadrophenia' came out, I turned on to that because of the whole story with it, and there were just some really amazing songs on there. 'Love Reign' being the quintessential song on that record, I think. That was always one of the cornerstones of my temple, that song.”

“Some time ago, I learned how to say, 'What's the worst thing that could happen up there?' I could mess up some words, I could sing flat... I could appear human. Is that really the worst thing in the world?”

“At that time a lot of young men didn't want to go to the war and kill. This guy that I fell in love with was one of those so he escaped to Canada and I followed him.”

“I care a lot about Heart; I was there at the inception of Heart.”

“Back when I started, you could either be a folk singer, or you could be a disco diva, or you could be a secretary or maybe a disc jockey, but there was no room for anything alternative yet.”

“We're not like Alice In Chains where somebody dies and the band breaks up.”

“Heart has always been a rock band. It's always been hard-rock.”

“You have to also provide a video for it, look a certain way and big hair... If you're a woman it's even more strange with fake fingernails and corsets and all this stuff that was big in the 80s.”

“It's a really bad idea to be in a band and get involved with each other.”

“Led Zeppelin, you can't find a better band to pay homage to.”

“People talk about each other in the worst way, especially when you become a product for sale. You're just a thing.”

“I trained myself by doing other people's songs in clubs way back when. And so I have no pride about doing covers. I love it. And being a song interpreter, to me, is just as important as, you know, putting your own thing out there. It's all about the soul - where the soul comes from.”