I grew up in a world that told girls they couldn't play rock 'n' roll.
There's so much beautiful music in the world, and the kids are getting robbed.
People are people, and I get a bit annoyed that the music business only focuses in on the big metropolises. I find that people that don't live in big cities are just as likely to enjoy music as people that do live in big cities.
More and more people are finally realizing that in the heart of America, there's all this incredible music that wasn't widely heard before because it wasn't in the interest of those who feel they have to control the taste of the wider public.
When there's an imbalance in terms of what people get to hear, then that's negative. Then blues, jazz, it will die.
It's a really unfair world because life is, where I am; all day long we listen to American music. So I don't see why the radios in the U.S. cannot even put aside one hour a day just to play music that is not American.
English music is white - it evades everything.
I wasn't making music consciously when I was younger. I was a musician, but that has its own stigmas. Anywhere on the planet, it's one of the more undervalued positions.
I always knew that women, some women, at times find it very difficult to find music.
