Hey I'm Brian Hyatt and this is Rolling Stone Music Now.

I'm really excited to be bringing you an interview I did with Brandy Carlisle.

He was of course one of the greatest singer-songwriters out there right now.

She has a new album out called In These Silent Days. It's really excellent.

We talked about that new music, her whole career and really her whole life up until now, which he also wrote about in her great memoir, which is called Broken Horses.

Let's jump right into that interview.

Your voice itself was what first caught my attention when I heard your first album or maybe even

just tracks from the first album 16 years ago or whatever it was. And I always thought your voice was

amazing as you know many people did and yet it really has improved as well.

You sing very differently now and in your book you write about all the vocal

coaching and stuff that got you there, but it also seems like

there's a psychological element as well, to be able to sing more clearly and more powerfully

without hurting yourself.

And how much is that technique and how much of it is

breaking through some kind of psychological block. Man that's such a good question. There's so much in it, you know, there's some really basic things like you know when I came out of the bars

There had only been non-smoking in in bars and restaurants for a for a hot minute so I had spent my whole life screaming four-hour sets

through smoke and also kind of wanting to and thinking that was really

punk rock and loving that and I had this raspy voice and I was really preoccupied with sounding tough.

So there was some psychological gender stuff in that for me too.

I didn't want to sound feminine or bell clear.

I wasn't worried about pitch, you I wanted to scream and yell and and sort of resist

Resist a stereotypical femininity is that you mean when you say resist yeah Yeah or what I thought was a

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