Nancy Wilson

“It is nice to be an American and to be able to have an opinion.”

“Everyone makes mistakes.”

“Unfortunately, the music programs are being stripped out of the schools these days. We have to change that.”

“When you're 12, you have no gauge for what's hip or not hip - or even who you are.”

“In the case of Roadcase Royale, everyone in the band has a lot to offer as a writer and producer.”

“We don't really intentionally try to sound like ourselves. I think that would be overthinking.”

“Our very first group was called The Prunes.' We did a lot of campgrounds, living rooms, and backyards.”

“I play a lot of classical music around the house.”

“As far as havin' someone to talk to on the road, for instance, who's not a guy - it's saved my life many times to have Ann in the same group.”

“When you're in your twenties, your brain hasn't even finished baking, and your hormones are giving you all kinds of direction of which ways to go.”

“Generally, I think of myself as a guitar player, but when I do find the right song to sing lead on, I try to do my best.”

“In many ways, we might compare to The Pretenders more than others, but still, we created our own category.”

“My highest score karaoke song is 'Ben,' by Michael Jackson.”

“We were wild-eyed hippies from the late '60s. We still had the exuberance of the mind-expanding '60s - that Tolkienesque, Zeppelin, androgynous, wood nymph, forest fairy kind of innocence. It sounds stupid now, but we felt we were changing the world with music.”

“Sleazy people are always in this business. They run the business, pretty much. There are a lot of barracudas.”

“I'll work my butt off to do something well.”

“We're notorious for living up to our namesake. We're all about love. That's how we roll, even when it's to a fault.”

“We're trying to elevate humanity and not preach to humanity in the way we approach our art. We're always just trying to get a good party going.”

“We've been around for awhile, had a lot of success. Got a chance to sit around and go, 'Oh, yeah, we're pretty good.'”

“The '80s was an interesting, confining time for songwriters, so we were just sort of riffing in our own language, off to the side.”