She has sold over a million records worldwide and won various awards, including Billboard and Juno, and has been called “one of the pioneers of female fronted rock." A singer/songwriter, she has toured and/or worked with an impressive list that ranges from Aerosmith to Alice Cooper to Cheap Trick to Van Halen, Carlos Santana, and Joe Cocker. She was also a feature actor in the episodic TV show “Sisters” and from 2003-2008 starred as one of the four judges on the hugely popular television series, “Canadian Idol.”
"That always happens, I find, with the songs that I like the best and that seem to do the best - they come out really quickly. Mind you, I don't usually spend more than an hour or two on any song - writing a song."
"We lived together at the studio... for about eight days... and we just worked all day long, every day."
"When you write a song and you record it before you've ever played it live, you don't really know how it's going to work live."
"I adore music... Music is a language. It crosses over borders... It crosses over walls around hearts... It is a calling card that allows you to experience things that you perhaps would not be able to."
"I don't think that female fronted rock is a particularly lucrative branch of music. I would not recommend it unless you were absolutely a thousand percent passionate about it."
"If you're going to hand me a CD, I'm pretty much not going to listen to it."
"As an artist you have to believe that what you're doing is fabulous. And it is! Even if it's only you!"
"If you're determined and you truly feel that you have something that you gotta get out there, you will find a way. If you're focused on that all day long, every day, the universe will conspire to bring the right people into your path."
“You Don’t Have to Remind Me"
“Make You a Believer”