My first gig with Metallica was at San Quentin State Penitentiary.
I just want people to leave a show and go, 'That was the most rockin' show I've ever seen.' I hope people can just roll with me a little bit - you know?
It is easy for me to go play a rock show, I have been doing that all my life and I love that.
I hope we're not the last of the Mohicans when it comes to putting on a big, crazy, over-the-top theatrical rock show.
Everything they’d been brought up not to do, they could do at a rock-and-roll show.
The most iconic applause I've ever seen is from a Michael Jackson show in Japan - his entrance is actually 15 minutes long, and the crowd is clapping the whole time.
I said it's all good and it's all in fun Now get in the pit and try to love someone
I came from a private school, and public high school was the first time I ever went to a public school. So I went into it very preppy; I was wearing a lot of Abercrombie and Hollister. Then, my sophomore year, I started listening to rock bands. I had a boyfriend that took me to my first rock show, and I was just addicted to that.
I'd definitely like to see less twerking and more power chords.
You come to a country music show and it's like a rock show, it's so different, it's just not what people think it is, it's really cool and I think that if people just give it a chance they'd see that it's really cool and I think that's what people are finally starting to see.
That's actually pretty tame, but the fact that it was coming from this unexpected adorable little 17-year-old, I thought I'd be getting a letter about her first rock show, but it's nothing like that - she gives me a tampon. It's a true testament to how the majority of our fan base - and I say this in the most respectful and best way I can - they're little freaks.
Unless the clients want, I don't like to have dancers for my shows. I prefer a rock show look and like performing with a live band.
If they can look past the fact that I happen to wear mascara on stage - which, by the way, is a ridiculous thing that people have a stigma about - then we promise a good rock show.
The older I get, the more I surf and do more stretches to get ready for the rock show.
I was pretty shocked [having concert in the Madison Square Garden]. It could have gone either way. But I think it's the right time. Nobody does what we do with taking the visuals and making it a complete rock 'n' roll show with the really good songs. Nobody's done that in a long time.
I love going to rock concerts, I love to lose myself in that vast wave of rhythm and body heat and get on the same vibe.
I realized early on, I'm more interested in Baryshnikov than some dancer who wants to do a rock show with ballet.
Onstage I've been hit by a grapefruit, beercans, eggs, spit, money, cigarette butts, Mandies, Quaaludes, joints, bras, panties, and a fist.
