Anna: I joined my first band at fifteen and quit at eighteen.
Anna: You can't possibly judge a book by it's album cover.
Anna: Jumping off amps on stage is really fun, but it looks way cooler when Howie does it. Not that that's gonna stop me.
Anna: If I was a Gummy Bear I'd hope to be a red one. It's my favorite. But a blue and red Gummy Worm would be acceptable too.
Anna: I started writing music when I was nine or ten and I'm sure that it was due in part to the fact that I needed an outlet for emotion.
Anna: For as long as I can remember, I've been a U2 fan. It seems like the majority of the landmarks in my young timeline are in my memory with a U2 song playing as the background music...
Anna: [In my fifth grade class] I was sitting there, not paying attention, as usual, and rewriting lyrics to a Cranberries' song. I'd also listen to Green Day and pick out bass notes on guitar. I figured out that I could put that all together and write my own melodies.
Anna: Ever since I was a little girl I just knew I wanted to be a performer. My earliest inspiration came from my grandparents, they both performed on Broadway, mainly in the chorus. My grandmother even danced with Fred Astaire and was in the stage versions of the Marx Brothers' Coconuts and Animal Crackers. I learned songs from those old shows from my grandmother who taught them to me when I was a kid.
Anna: Inspiration comes from a variety of sources, [but my songs are] not necessarily about my personal experiences, but sometimes just observations of situations or relationships of different people I've known. They get funneled through my own inner psyche. Whatever the source of the interpretation, the feelings I get are personal. I find a need to write these feelings down in words and the melody follows.
Anna: I was in a band [in high school] with my best guy friend and we played hard rock songs, and I had to be really angry and do a lot of screaming.
Anna was nominated for two "New Music Weekly Awards" for "Hot AC Single of the Year", and for "AC Female Artist of the Year".
While showing off her talents to her third grade teacher one day, Anna's teacher told her that she'd end up "one day on Jay Leno's show." And, ironically, Anna did.
Besides writing her own songs in high school, Anna also performed with a "Rush" cover band.
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