Margaret Cho Quotes

I'm supportive of women, absolutely, and it's so gratifying to have girls come up and say, 'I'm really inspired by your guitar playing.' I mean no disrespect to the sisterhood, but musically I feel more drawn to things like Dirty Projectors, the National and Grizzly Bear.

I never really followed grunge.

The first real concert, other than going with my dad to see Three Dog Night, was Smashing Pumpkins and Garbage. I was fourteen or fifteen. I liked Shirley Manson because she reminded me of Annie Lennox. They both have these deep, sexy, powerful alto voices.

XTC is my favorite band; I'm a huge Neil Young fan, Jayhawks, all that type of stuff. I like Death Cab for Cutie, also Ryan Adams. I try to impress my children: 'Have you listened to such-and-such?' They're not impressed.

I was born in '76, but I didn't get into rock until the early '90s when the grunge stuff started coming out.

One of my biggest inspirations was Alanis Morissette's 'Jagged Little Pill.'

Unlike a lot of my cohorts from the '80s and '90s who totally blamed the shortness of their careers on bands like Nirvana and Alice in Chains and Soundgarden and whatever, I was very into a lot of those bands.

I love Nirvana, Weezer and a lot of pop punk stuff - Blink-182, I loved.

I'm not an '80s fan. I'm more '70s New York pre-punk kind of thing, and I guess I grew up with '90s grunge, post-punk pop music.

One of my first favorite records was the debut Garbage album, which I heard when I was very young. Shirley Manson is a great female vocalist and performer and I admire her for that.

Nirvana was huge, but it didn't appeal to everyone.

I grew up listening to Nirvana and then went through some bad '90s pop stuff - a lot of Australian one-hit wonders.

I like Nirvana, but I couldn't say that I was influenced by them. I like to tell a story.

I started wearing all black around the time I got into Nirvana. I first heard 'Smells Like Teen Spirit' when I was about 12, and I remember jumping on my bed, so excited about it.

My father played guitar, so I always wanted to play for that reason. But I think the biggest reason was just the '90s in general - growing up listening to the Smashing Pumpkins, Green Day and bands like that, and going to concerts and thinking it was the coolest thing in the world.

I absolutely think the Seattle grunge sound was instrumental to my music education.

Live are a really good band. I like Stone Temple Pilots, Radiohead I love. Even Oasis.

I was very aware of Jeff Buckley. My brother actually bought me The Mamas And The Papas and Jeff Buckley for my birthday when I was in my early teens.

Band of Skulls is joining Cage the Elephant as my new musical caffeine.

I'm a big fan of rocky girls. I love Hayley Williams and the lead singer from Tonight Alive.

'Ten' by Pearl Jam is still by far one of my favorite albums and is a big part of what inspired me to learn guitar.

I love Soundgarden, I love Rage Against the Machine, Simon & Garfunkel.

We were perceived as a post-grunge band.

As I got older, I fell in love with Radiohead, and 'OK Computer' is one of my favorite albums of theirs. Sonically, the tone of the guitars on tracks like 'Electioneering' just rips right through me.

The first music I ever got into was the '80s alternative bands that my brother listened to, like The Cure and The Smiths and R.E.M. and Fugazi. I can remember specifically saying The Cure was my favorite band back in second grade.