Lzzy Hale Quotes

They sign a bunch of women, and they call it a movement. I don't like the way women in music have been identified as women first and musicians second.

You don't have to put dresses in a movie to make girls like it.

I'm really pleased that women like me as well as men. My fanbase is quite evenly split.

I wrote about ladies who had come through the studio. I get asked, 'Is it a choice to gender the music or put pronouns in?' and for me, it just wasn't a choice.

We were the first all-girl band that wrote and played our own stuff. You know, the odds were really against us because rock has traditionally been dominated by men.

I have endless admiration for people like Chrissie Hynde who've been out as the only girl in a band. I'm not sure that, even as a little Marine Corps brat, I would've been able to deal with that.

For us, gender didn't come up. We were friends who happened to play together. We never said, 'Gee, we're an all-girl band!'

I've always wanted to do stuff to help encourage more women to play, whether it's booking women on my shows at home, even when I was just playing DIY shows, or booking benefit shows and having all women play.

I'd like to be able to get more girls to play guitar. I think with a girl playing electric guitar, sometimes it's seen a bit like a guy doing ballet. All the people I learned guitar from have been guys. There are some great female players, like Bonnie Raitt and Jennifer Batten, but very few.

I was lucky to grow up in the '90s, when we had just as many strong female artists as male artists. That's a world I would like to live in again.

To me, hip hop will never be right until female rappers have a stronger voice in it.

It's a woman's book but I think the men will read it too.

I think female drummers are great. I think there should more of them.

There have never been so many women in the music industry, but they're doing ballads and pop. Where's the new Joan Jetts and the Wanda Jacksons and the Debbie Harrys, all these strong women? I wanna be the woman that rocks.

Technology may be traditionally perceived as a male-dominated industry, but it won't always be that way. Every day we see more and more powerful women leaders boasting outstanding achievements.

I want to see 10 female rappers getting regular rotation. It can't be all about a man's opinion.

I think, in general, more women need to be involved in music and in the industry - that's been an issue.

I'm definitely looking forward to doing a film one day with more female actors.

I don't hate being compared with female musicians. I don't mind that at all. I have no problem with seeing connections between women's work.

I used to think when I was in the Go-Go's that we were as wild as any of the boy bands.

First there's my role just as an executive being responsible for advertising, regardless of gender. I think that's a position that I take seriously. That's the first role. But I think for my role as a woman at Google, you try to set a good example and be a role model for the other women in the organization.

I've always had as many friends who are women as friends who are guys.

I'm just glad that there's some diversity in the music industry with women so people know that you can be literally anything and still be able to make it.

To me, it's exciting that women are dominating the pop charts.

I don't know that a lot of boys read 'Rookie', but we get quite a few nice comments and e-mails from them. To say I'm devoted to making it girls-only is a little extreme, because I don't actively try to exclude everyone else, just make sure girls know that this space is for them first and foremost.