Lzzy Hale

“I got this cheap guitar, and then I fell in love with it and basically put down the keyboard.”

“I can count on less than five fingers the things I can do well, so I'm just going to stick to those. It's crazy; it's literally all I've ever wanted to do in life is sing and play and get out there and rock.”

“When we began to tour, no one expected me to be a part of the band, so I used that as a tool, and would start the set off-stage or in the audience, as a surprise, because no one expected this little girl to get up and rock the way I do.”

“It keeps my feet on the ground just making sure that I'm always trying to learn something new or trying to be a real guitar player.”

“My first Gibson was a '91 Les Paul Custom tobacco burst. I still have it - it's still amazing-sounding - but it took me a long time of saving up to get that guy!”

“I wanted to be a multi-instrumentalist.”

“I keep telling everybody that touring has now become my normal life and that normal life is like a very odd vacation.”

“As musicians, we are quite literally singing for our supper. Don't get me wrong, I love touring, but the reality is that our idols from the '70s and '80s never toured this hard. They'd do a record, have one big world tour, maybe two, then break to do another record.”

“We don't dip our toe into religion or politics, because you can't win.”

“For me, this band and the music that I write and this touring thing that I do and playing in front of people, singing, and making a lot of noise on guitar - all that was more important than a lot of other things.”

“I made a lot of not-so-fashionable choices in my life. I see all of those photos that are on the Internet forever.”

“I go back to the rock n' roll black leather jacket, red lips, smoky eyes. I like my high heels, maybe some leather pants or ripped jeans, things that have never really gone out of style. Again, it's very reflective of who I am as a bandmate in our band.”

“I'm so honored that there are people, peers, that I'm inspired by and looked up to for years and actually want me to do my thing with them. It's quite the honor, and it's been wonderful to see everybody's fan base kind of melting together.”

“You can pick out the scariest dude on the tour and, guaranteed, he's probably a smush - I just find that so incredibly attractive.”

“I've been in the songwriting circuit as well. I've been in a couple writing camps where there are seven top writers or whatever, and they're writing songs for a young girl or a young guy that are coming up, and they're kind of nuts.”

“If, through my own personal journey, I can inspire someone else to self-love, that would be the biggest accomplishment.”

“I keep changing my stuff. I used to play through a Marshall JCM800, and then I also had a Randy Rhoads signature amp. So before I was playing EVH, I was playing an ODB pedal. I still have my Dunlop Jerry Cantrell wah pedal because I love that.”

“I grew up in a household that never talked about limitations.”

“You're so used to being on the road and having a schedule that the insanity seeps in when you're sitting at home and there's nothing going on that day.”

“I have learned that you can't be high-maintenance on the road. I've groomed myself to not be high-maintenance. You have to maintain and be a girl and not become a dude.”