Top 44 Lzzy Hale Quotes

I wanted to be a multi-instrumentalist.

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.

You’re so used to being on the road and having a schedule that the insanity seeps in when you’re sitting at home and there’s nothing going on that day.

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

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 remember one tour with two male-fronted bands, and they had a fight over who could use the bathroom first. Then they just ended up having a beef with each other for the entire rest of the tour.

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.

I go back to the rock n’ roll black leather jacket, red lips, smoky eyes. I like my high heels, maybe some leather pants or ripped jeans, things that have never really gone out of style. Again, it’s very reflective of who I am as a bandmate in our band.

I wore Chuck Taylors for a couple shows, and the second show I wore the Chuck Taylors, that was the one and only time I fell onstage. I haven’t really bit it onstage in high heels yet. It will happen. It’s not about if, it’s about when.

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

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 like to sew, and I am into bending metal and making industrial jewelry. I sew a lot of my own clothes and customize stuff.

There’s always a spot, any time we make a new record, where I literally go back to Judas Priest and Motorhead because you have to. You have to go back and understand where this all started for you and keep reminding yourself of 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.

As musicians, we are quite literally singing for our supper. Don’t get me wrong, I love touring, but the reality is that our idols from the ’70s and ’80s never toured this hard. They’d do a record, have one big world tour, maybe two, then break to do another record.

When you have a relationship with music, and it’s that deeply a part of your life, it’s so much more than a career choice for me. It’s an extension of who I am.

A lot of girls come to our shows, and a lot of them are freaking adorable and want to learn how to play guitar.

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.

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

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

When we began to tour, no one expected me to be a part of the band, so I used that as a tool, and would start the set off-stage or in the audience, as a surprise, because no one expected this little girl to get up and rock the way I do.

It doesn’t matter how you’re dressed onstage or what you say in your songs: that doesn’t give anybody the right to invade your personal space.

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

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

I think it’s less stressful to just make decisions as you go, because plans never work out, but you never run out of dreams. You have an eternal bucket list where you keep crossing things off, and keep adding things to the bottom.

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.

What people don’t normally know about us is the hustle is very real, and it’s sorely driven a lot by how we consider ourselves. We don’t pay a whole lot of attention to any type of judgment that we might get from outside people. I think that comes from growing up onstage.

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.

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.

I play mostly Gibsons. In fact, they have just given me a signature guitar.

There’s always an element of truth to what I write because that’s why I write.

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.

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.

My first Gibson was a ’91 Les Paul Custom tobacco burst. I still have it – it’s still amazing-sounding – but it took me a long time of saving up to get that guy!

We don’t dip our toe into religion or politics, because you can’t win.

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 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.

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.

I don’t think I’ll ever do a record that’s just the same song over and over again because I’d like to think about it like it’s an album and a snapshot of everything that makes you who you are and where you’re at at that time in your life.

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’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.

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

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