Sleazy people are always in this business. They run the business, pretty much. There are a lot of barracudas.
We struck out on our own in suburbia with parents who actually helped us get where we needed to go.
I know, in so many cases, a lot of the women who came up through the singer-songwriter, Lilith Fair era, the earlier Lilith Fair era, did say that we were influences on them.
Our mom was a super strident, capable, and strong individual. I think because she was a military wife in the Marine Corps, she had to push back the things that she believed, and she had to really scrape and fight to have her space.
There is a definite sound with all-girl bands, a good rudimentary sound, and that's what's cool and punk about all-girl bands that you still find, largely - it's really kind of primal.
Most of our great influences were male rockers, like Led Zeppelin.
