Quotes from Nita Strauss

It never really occurred to me to seek out a female influence, a female musician.

It's not odd to be a female in a band anymore. It's not odd to be a girl carrying a guitar case to a gig.

I might come across like kind of a show-off onstage and stuff, but I like collaborating with people.

My boyfriend and I haven't taken a vacation in years. Usually, when we travel, I have to play. It's not really a vacation even if we do fun stuff to do because I'm always running around sound-checking and taking care of business stuff. And he is my manager, so he is taking care of more business stuff than I am.

You can be in the band, you can go buy your own guitar strings at Guitar Center, you can go and do everything the boys can do and you're not the oddity anymore.

I've worked my entire life to be this busy. I've worked my entire career to have this many things to do and this many emails to answer. Even when it's overwhelming, it's still a blessing.

I do remember being a kid and hearing Van Halen. My dad was always playing Van Halen in the car.

You know, I try not to think too much about women guitarists versus men guitarists; the world does that for me.

I was not a super social kid and I didn't have the easiest time making friends.

I'm pretty easy-going and pretty happy most of the time.

I record everything myself, I engineer everything myself.