Nancy Wilson

Ever since I could remember, women's issues have been pretty urgent.

With 'Brigade,' we sort of decided to kind of revamp ourselves and put on the military garb and become more of a fighting unit, you know, like the title of the album, and sort of fight for it.

I feel like I've had a lot of painful situations that I intentionally delete from my memory.

I think what constitutes rock nowadays is people that actually play and sing. They can do the job live with no ProTools or embellishments or other recorded material.

We always had a lot of admiration for feminists who were out there trying to change things for the better for women, who were trying to find equality in the workplace and at home.

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.

In our band, we had such an interesting democracy, and it worked really well.

I'm a Katy Perry fan, and I took my kids to go see her, and it was a great show, and she really can sing, and she really can play.

I'm a chameleon when it comes to guitar playing and like to stretch out into different territories.

Being taken seriously was always the biggest challenge.

Being mothers, we try to stay home as much as possible and attend to the children.

As a songwriter, simplicity - what not to do, what not to play - can be the hardest thing to achieve.