Top 44 Lzzy Hale Quotes

It’s important for people to realize that music is gender-less. We are proving that every single day. On this tour, there are more women than men in the audience, and it’s beautiful to see these girls own these hard-rock moments.

I think there’s this primal need to go to a show when you’re a rock fan. And it’s about that camaraderie and about that intangible feeling that we all get.

I’m always trying to evolve my sound. I love the simplicity of my setup. I play Gibson guitars and Marshall amps. So it’s kind of like the standard rock sound.

I feel like, as a girl, I would have reacted or maybe been more depressed about some of the things that would have happened in my life if I didn’t have music.

If, through my own personal journey, I can inspire someone else to self-love, that would be the biggest accomplishment.

You can’t please everyone. There’s always going to be someone disappointed, so you might as well make yourself happy and Be You.

I think that’s a big part of what I love about the boys in the band, too, and what I find attractive in men in general is, really, the ability to not take everything so seriously because it is rock n’ roll after all; it’s a freakin’ circus. We’re not accountants here.

The good thing about most of the girls that I’ve met on the road is that, regardless of whether they’re cute or not, man – they can bring it onstage, which is inspiring not just for young girls and young people in general but for myself because then it makes me want to step it up.

Over the years, it’s funny: my guys will tell you and anyone that I have a problem not giving 100 percent. Because there are some nights where I probably shouldn’t actually say everything or do everything I think I should do.

Here’s the breakdown: alcohol dehydrates you and stimulates acid reflux. Then, when you sing on dry, irritated vocal folds, your folds swell. When your folds swell, they cause hoarseness, which makes you feel like you have to push harder to get a sound out.

I ended up starting guitar because I didn’t want to just be the lead singer.

I go to a lot of metal shows when we’re home. I don’t know why, but it takes me back to when I was 17 and going to the local metal shows in Pennsylvania. I go right back to that mentality.

I keep telling everybody that touring has now become my normal life and that normal life is like a very odd vacation.

It’s not like I have this philosophical answer as to why I love rock.

I have learned that you can’t be high-maintenance on the road. I’ve groomed myself to not be high-maintenance. You have to maintain and be a girl and not become a dude.

I keep changing my stuff. I used to play through a Marshall JCM800, and then I also had a Randy Rhoads signature amp. So before I was playing EVH, I was playing an ODB pedal. I still have my Dunlop Jerry Cantrell wah pedal because I love that.

My new year’s resolution is to stop making five-year plans. I stress over where I’m going to be in five years so often.

I dare anybody to display a more amazing body of work than Tom Petty.

I’ve been talking a lot about how music chooses you because you can pinpoint when you had the epiphany that, ‘Wow, I really want to do this.’ But there’s no real rhyme or reason about choosing to be in this industry. It’s one of those things where there is no real guarantee; there is no real rulebook to follow.

You can pick out the scariest dude on the tour and, guaranteed, he‘s probably a smush – I just find that so incredibly attractive.

I am holding on to every shred of femininity that I can with heels and dresses.

As far as people, I’ve always loved Tony Iommi’s sound, just the grittiness that was in that era of metal where it wasn’t too fuzzy, and you could still hear the guitar and the fingers, but it still had this chunky, meat-and-potatoes sound to it.

Cinderella obviously got caught up in the hair metal scene, but they were such a blues band. And such a good live band.

I’m so honored that there are people, peers, that I’m inspired by and looked up to for years and actually want me to do my thing with them. It’s quite the honor, and it’s been wonderful to see everybody’s fan base kind of melting together.

I made a lot of not-so-fashionable choices in my life. I see all of those photos that are on the Internet forever.

I remember that when people started listening to what I had to say, I had a choice to set up a veil, even if it meant being something that I’m not. Ultimately, that’s not the decision I made. I owned more of everything I am, which was a little nerve-racking.

What I really realized is that by being myself, regardless of what that means, you become a better role model.

I got this cheap guitar, and then I fell in love with it and basically put down the keyboard.

I actually ended up going through a vocal change. It started about two years ago, and it’s only been recently that I found my balance again. Vocally, I couldn’t figure out what was going on. My lows were getting lower, and my highs were getting higher; everything felt weird.

It’d be great to have more categories in the rock and metal category – but I don’t want that job, picking where everybody is supposed to go.

I grew up in a household that never talked about limitations.

Something that I don’t normally tell, and it’s not necessarily because I wanna keep it from anybody – I just don’t think about it – but one thing about me that not a whole lot of people know and that never really gets brought up is that I actually don’t have a driver‘s license. I’ve never taken a driver’s test.

We’re so humbled and lucky to be in a position where we’ve been a four-piece for over 15 years. We’re signed to a major label. We’re on our fourth record on a major label. We’ve won a Grammy. We’ve toured the world.

It keeps my feet on the ground just making sure that I’m always trying to learn something new or trying to be a real guitar player.

I didn’t know that women go through a vocal change, which is called ‘thickening’. Basically, it’s like when your body gets ready for childbirth, and so it just grows in a weird way. When I figured that out, I was frustrated with it.

There is something in my brain that said if I get Halestorm to a point where people are actually listening to what I have to say, I might as well put out positivity and be that empowering figure that I would have wanted in a rock star.

I’ve dealt my entire career with sexist and condescending people.

In my efforts to better my stamina and career, I find myself becoming more monk-like. And I’m not talking about the ‘holy, praying, create awesome Trappist beer‘-type monk. I’m talking about the ‘go to bed early, no drinking, no talking, and no having any fun’-type monk.

Deep down inside, I’m a cheeseball and still listen to Bryan Adams and all that stuff.

I’ve been in the songwriting circuit as well. I’ve been in a couple writing camps where there are seven top writers or whatever, and they’re writing songs for a young girl or a young guy that are coming up, and they’re kind of nuts.

What I love about Zeppelin is that you can listen to their entire catalog and kind of see where they were at in the moment.

I wanted to be a multi-instrumentalist.

I had, like, a keytar. I was always attracted to the guitar, but I never really thought that I could be good at it because I was trained on piano, so it was kind of a jump.

My musical tastes – I’m always searching for new things. I know a lot of people say they listen to everything, but I kind of do.