Lzzy Hale

“I ended up starting guitar because I didn't want to just be the lead singer.”

“It doesn't matter how you're dressed onstage or what you say in your songs: that doesn't give anybody the right to invade your personal space.”

“I didn't know that women go through a vocal change, which is called 'thickening'. Basically, it's like when your body gets ready for childbirth, and so it just grows in a weird way. When I figured that out, I was frustrated with it.”

“I like to sew, and I am into bending metal and making industrial jewelry. I sew a lot of my own clothes and customize stuff.”

“We're so humbled and lucky to be in a position where we've been a four-piece for over 15 years. We're signed to a major label. We're on our fourth record on a major label. We've won a Grammy. We've toured the world.”

“There's always a spot, any time we make a new record, where I literally go back to Judas Priest and Motorhead because you have to. You have to go back and understand where this all started for you and keep reminding yourself of that.”

“I think it's less stressful to just make decisions as you go, because plans never work out, but you never run out of dreams. You have an eternal bucket list where you keep crossing things off, and keep adding things to the bottom.”

“I remember one tour with two male-fronted bands, and they had a fight over who could use the bathroom first. Then they just ended up having a beef with each other for the entire rest of the tour.”

“I love using lots of different pedals in the studio because you have the time to experiment with sounds. But when you're singing, fronting a rock band, and playing, you don't really want to have to think about a lot of that stuff.”

“I'm always trying to evolve my sound. I love the simplicity of my setup. I play Gibson guitars and Marshall amps. So it's kind of like the standard rock sound.”

“My new year's resolution is to stop making five-year plans. I stress over where I'm going to be in five years so often.”

“I have always been 'small town.' I was born outside of Philadelphia, so we lived on a 20-acre farm and then spent two years in a log cabin on the Appalachian Trail. We lived outside of York in Red Lion, which is an amazing town. It's perpetually 1982 in that town.”

“I wore Chuck Taylors for a couple shows, and the second show I wore the Chuck Taylors, that was the one and only time I fell onstage. I haven't really bit it onstage in high heels yet. It will happen. It's not about if, it's about when.”

“It'd be great to have more categories in the rock and metal category - but I don't want that job, picking where everybody is supposed to go.”

“As far as people, I've always loved Tony Iommi's sound, just the grittiness that was in that era of metal where it wasn't too fuzzy, and you could still hear the guitar and the fingers, but it still had this chunky, meat-and-potatoes sound to it.”

“I've dealt my entire career with sexist and condescending people.”

“In my world, before I knew about Eddie Van Halen, I was playing piano, and at that point in my teenage life, I thought he was just a guitar player.”

“Cinderella obviously got caught up in the hair metal scene, but they were such a blues band. And such a good live band.”

“I am holding on to every shred of femininity that I can with heels and dresses.”

“My musical tastes - I'm always searching for new things. I know a lot of people say they listen to everything, but I kind of do.”