“I have noticed lots more girls are coming up to me and saying, 'Hey, I...” — Ellie Rowsell Quote

I have noticed lots more girls are coming up to me and saying, 'Hey, I started the guitar!'

I don't feel any extra pressure fronting the band - I understand that there are less women in guitar music so it can be exciting for a young girl to see.

We were brought up to be aware of feminism but also not to consider yourself as a woman, in a way. You don't play a gender role, you play the role of yourself. So I never felt much like a girl in the world. I felt like a person.

People are always like, 'What kind of music do you play?' and actually, I've started just saying 'rock music.' Because I feel like it's such a dirty word, and I want to reclaim it. I'm just going to start saying that without a blush.

When I first started, all the media I ever got was, 'Hey! There's this Indian girl. And even though she is Indian, she gets views and stuff.'

It's funny, when you become an actor and you're successful, they don't want to talk about acting any more. 'Hey let's talk about that stuff you were fired from.'

I thought that God and rap would never work. I thought that God wasn't okay with rap. People knew I used to rap, and I went to the Bible studies. Someone said, 'Hey, you should rap about Jesus.'

If you want to be a quarterback in this league or Pee-Wee, you've got to believe, 'Hey, I'm the guy.'

Something inside of me just said 'Hey, wait a minute, I want to beat him,' and I just took off.