Nita Strauss

“Nothing is more important to me than love.”

“But at the end of the day, I'm a girl. I'm from Santa Monica. I'm going to look how I want to look and play how I want to play, and if people don't like it, then they don't like it.”

“It's hard to get a start as an instrumental guitar player. It's a much quicker route to be in a band, so I was always in a band and writing songs with singers, but I always had the dream in the back of my mind to make an instrumental record.”

“The thing that drove me, and the thing that still drives me today to stay sober is all the blessings that have come into my life since this happened.”

“I'm pretty easy-going and pretty happy most of the time.”

“Yeah, of course, there's always gonna be people with their own opinions about a female in rock music and men in rock music, but at the end of the day, it's just about being a good musician.”

“Three of my heroes that have gotten clean and sober that I got to ask for advice were Alice Cooper, Nikki Sixx and Zakk Wylde.”

“I saw Jennifer Batten do a cool guitar solo before I ever saw any other girl do a cool guitar solo.”

“When it's your own name that is the business, the business never stops.”

“I've worked my entire life to be this busy. I've worked my entire career to have this many things to do and this many emails to answer. Even when it's overwhelming, it's still a blessing.”