Meredith Ann Brooks (born June 12, 1958) is an American singer-songwriter and guitarist best known for her 1997 hit song "Bitch", for which she was nominated for a Grammy Award.
You don't realize 'till you get here what a moment in history you're a part of.
I know my ambitions are big, but you've got to have something after rock and roll.
I don't think science is totally true, because I've seen miracles happen through prayer.
My eyes change colors, which is why you guys have never been able to figure it out.
Everything I read about me is what I say. The way I've come across is exactly who I am. So far, they haven't skewed it to be one way or another too much.
A long term goal is to encourage students to start doing concerts in which I or the other artists will come back at the end of the school year to see their concerts.
I think people are basically unhappy working their jobs, and we all need to have that thing that gets our juices flowing.
I first met Hanson over in Japan and they gave me some great advice about the fans and they seem real down to earth. They're great.
I grabbed my drummer's cymbal in my teeth just as he crashed down on it with his sticks-I blacked out. I was a punk in those days. It was in Seattle. I still have all my teeth too, it's amazing.
I like my lyrics to feel conversational and truthful, as if we're having real talk. I don't really like generic lyrics.
There are very few interviews I turn down, because I really dig talking to people and hanging out.
I had my dysfunctions, but music gave me peace and joy. I never felt in tune with the world. My parents always saw me as an artist, and that greatly influenced me. My art was my autonomy.
My mentoring program is pretty specific, it's about self-empowerment, about being able to find solutions through teamwork. That's one of my first goals.
I've started a project called Planet Art. The purpose will be to remind people where I really believe we came from, which was a creative planet, and that everybody can be autonomous through their art.
I was either going onstage or going into an interview or getting on a plane. You can't really feel everything fully when you don't have the time to process.
Psychology Today is probably one of my favorite magazines, Guitar, Guitar World. People.
I can write songs without a guitar.
It's just that only now are women coming around, and when someone as striking as Alanis or Sheryl Crow comes out, the public just needs something to compare it to.
The most spiritual place you can be in your life is when youre being very real, when youre not allowing everybody and everything to influence your decisions and your moods, and whats morally right or ethically right.
I'm a humanist. I'm an observer. I have a very scientific mind. I believe metaphysics and science absolutely blended are more the truth for me. It doesn't work just believing in what somebody says.