It's not always what you know, but who you know. Get out and meet people.
There is nothing like singing a song that 20,000 people know and are singing back to you.
I am a big Pink Floyd fan. That is where a lot of the concept lyrics come from.
I was growing up listening to Queen. Freddie Mercury threw those incredible melodies into his songs.
In my writing with Extreme, there are heavy themes. The cover photo has me with a gun to my neck. I am not advocating suicide. I am taking the philosophy that man is the measure of his own fate.
I tried to stick with what I knew best, which is writing rock n' roll songs and melodies. I am as passionate as I was when I was 20.
I think there are some good players coming up. I think we are at a point where people can swallow a guitar solo in a pop rock record again.
Carbon dioxide is. . . . being portrayed as a pollutant; in fact, it makes things grow, and it is not toxic to humans.
Occasionally there are parents who say, "I brought my child so he or she could learn what the career of a writer is like, and you did this long theatrical performance instead, and I'm very disappointed. "
Some mischievous people always there. Last several thousand years, always there. In future, also.
So there really was a whole series of things that took the women of my generation a little bit of time to push forward.