Jani Lane

“Literally, there's not a song that I've done, and I've written a lot of songs... there's not a song that I've done that I can't sit down and do acoustically for you. Including 'Cherry Pie.'”

“For every band that writes something earth-shatteringly important, there has to be a band you can go out and drink beer to.”

“We normally change the' set around to adapt to who we're playing with on tour.”

“I'm like anyone else. I'm sure people who write, paint or whatever. They think whatever they just did is their best.”

“Stronger Now' is a song from 'Ultraphobic' that I originally wrote to go on 'Dog Eat Dog' but didn't make it but I thought it should have!! I think it is a very well written song.”

“Every city has its own character.”

“We've always had a base following, that's been our life-support system.”

“Cherry Pie' was a fun song.”

“For some guys, they associate loud, tough, gutsy music with being male. It is very masculine music. There's a whole sexy thing - a masculine sexy thing - about hard rock and heavy metal that pulls guys in.”

“When we go out and play, a lot of people show up. It's a strange thing to me. I don't want to jinx it.”

“Eventually, our kind of music, whether it's us or Motley or Poison of whoever, will define the 1980s. That's something to be proud of.”

“I'm more than willing to face the consequences for my bad decisions.”

“If I have one piece of advice for anyone going into music, it would be this: Never, ever give anyone the power of attorney.”

“I was a drummer for 20-some years before I had to sell my drums to move to Los Angeles. Once I got here, people said, 'Oh, you can sing and you have blonde hair. You're going to be a lead singer.'”

“There are a lot of people out there that have stayed loyal to us, so I'd like to stay loyal to them, too.”

“Nobody remembers who our publicists were and who our marketing team was. All they remember is what they did to us.”

“Instead of singing hard rock, I could just as easily be singing 'The Fantastiks' or 'Pajama Game' somewhere.”

“I moved out to L.A. from Cleveland. I had long blond hair and I sang high, so the powers that be said, 'Hair metal. Let's let Suzie over here put on some makeup for you, a little Aqua-net, and you're on your way.'”

“People can call us chauvinist pigs. We expect it. But there are two definitions of chauvinism. One is an unfounded loyalty to one's own sex. We don't have that. The other definition is having a fanatical patriotism toward women. And we do. So go ahead and say we're chauvinists.”

“You don't have to act like a biker from hell to be a man. That's not what being a man is about. It's about being a responsible human being, with some decent values - and taking care of business.”