I grew up in a very modest house. We were poor-we lived on the poverty level. We all got jobs as young kids.

I grew up very fast as a young girl, but I grew slowly into my womanhood.

As a young girl, there were the obvious messages about what girls could and couldn't achieve. And to compound the limitations I felt being leveled upon me, I realized at the age of nine, that I was gay.

I didn't do the typical things that young kids do.

Really young kids are into guitars.

I came along at a time when the industry was eating its young.