Alissa White-Gluz

The way I see it, I am lucky to be alive and well, and I only wish the same for others.

I work out a lot. I started to work out on the road as much as I can, but I work out a lot at home to keep myself in good shape.

I had my first band. it was kind of a progressive metal band kind of thing. I just started writing songs that required more and more challenging vocals, and I just did them. Necessity is the mother of invention, right? So I just sort of did what I had to do to make the songs sound the way I wanted them to.

I am one of the few but very lucky people who grew up in a vegetarian household. So, I was vegetarian since birth along with my mother, sister, and brother.

It's totally natural to me to be vegan.

I like to write lyrics when I feel it, and because of that, I like to keep a log of lyrics all the time.

I have a hard time writing happy things. I really just don't find it that interesting for me personally to write about that.

The most common time I write lyrics is the middle of the night.

I do guest vocals all the time.

That's one of the reasons I'm vegan. Death terrifies me. I don't want to impose death on anyone else.

Touring, it's really difficult to actually make a band work, and I think that's why there's so few bands that do work, actually, 'cause there's so much that goes into it.

I've been vegan longer than I've been a singer. And it's definitely something that I try to put across in my work, but that's just because I really care about it.