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"Kids like that song as well as do the parents. It's weird because my friend's children, whenever they are on the swings, they sing, "Use your bed like a trampoline, higher!" And then they make their moms push them higher."

Patience Hodgson (The Grates)

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"It’s great to use music to help convey a message – especially a message about respect and just making people aware of it. One of the things I love about music is that you can help people and teach people about things"

Amy Findlay (Stonefield)

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"I really, really love music. I'm affected by it and uplifted by it, and made to laugh and cry, and almost fall in love with the person who has made me feel so brilliant and communicated so profoundly to me."

Siobhan Fahey (Bananarama, Shakespeare's Sister)

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"The heart can be a crazy thing and sometimes thinks on its own or too quickly."

Tay Jardine (We Are The In Crowd)

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"I got like a hundred songs when I was like 16, 17. I look at 'em and think, "Oh, you poor..." The music is pretty good, but the lyrics are just like, OH MY GOD. We were just trying to figure out how blues rhymes with you. When I was writing 'em, they didn't have anything to do with who I was."

Kim Deal (The Pixies)

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"I always wanted to be in Cherri Bomb, but I didn't play the bass. When they asked me to try out I said, 'Sure, why not?' I knew playing on stage with my sister would make a killer rhythm section. I quickly learned bass guitar, practiced, and landed the gig!"

Rena Lovelis (Cherri Bomb)

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"There's a lot of rage... you have to express it somehow. If I didn't express it in song, I'd become incredibly violent."

Siobhan Fahey (Bananarama, Shakespeare's Sister)

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"Dude, people tell I'm crazy at least on a weekly basis!"

Tay Jardine (We Are The In Crowd)

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“Even when I took the drugs I realized that this just wasn't fun anymore. The drugs had become a part of my routine. Something to wake me up. Something to help me sleep. Something to calm my nerves. There was a time when I was able to wake up, go to sleep, and have fun without a pill or a line to help me function. These days it felt like I might have a nervous breakdown if I didn't have them.”

Cherie Currie (The Runaways)

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“I found my inner bitch and ran with her”

Courtney Love (Hole)

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"I figured out it was a social thing, what women were allowed to do. At a very young age, I decided I was not going to follow women's rules."

Joan Jett (The Runaways)

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"I think that our lyrics are definitely dark, but I know for a fact that we pull our inspiration from a million different influences. We listened to everything growing up. Our music isn't just 'opera metal' or 'gothic pop' it's just Evanescence"

Amy Lee (Evanescence)

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"There were so many times I wanted to give up and thought it wasn’t going to happen. But you just hold on and keep pushing. Every day I wake up and I’m grateful."

Maria Brink (In This Moment)

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"When I first played the electric guitar, it felt like a lightning bolt"

Julia Pierce (Cherri Bomb)

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"There's symphony of monsters in my belly"

Juliet Simms (Automatic Loveletter)

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"I don't care about the fame. I do it because I love music. I like making records and if people like them, then we'll go along for the ride."

Taylor Momsen (The Pretty Reckless)

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"We’ve got a shed on our farm, so we go in there and make as much noise as we like, and no-one really hears. Unless it’s a windy day, and the sound travels"

Amy Findlay (Stonefield)