let people hear my words and how I feel. I have tons of offers from people to write songs and I know I may not be the greatest song writer or the greatest lyricist, but when I write what I feel, I get to sing it with feeling. I know that experience and I know how that emotion changed me in some way, so when I am on stage it makes sense to me. Singing someone else's lyrics, I may not feel it like I would feel my own.
Mike: It seems a lot of music lyrics are sometimes hard to make out, for example with grindcore, but you manage to express the same amount of energy in your singing, while also making it easy for fans to hear what you are singing about. Is that something that is important to you as an artist?
Jackie: I have always been big on pronunciation. I understand where these girls are coming from when they do the screaming, or do the stuff that is hardcore or heavy metal. For me, to do somthing like that doesn't make any sense. I take pride in what I am singing or that people understand what I am saying. I mean every once in a while I want to throw in one of the growls, but when it makes sense to. I call my voice "The Manly Voice"(laughs) I have four brothers and just grew up like a tom boy so (laughs)...It works for me that I have low voice and it's my "Man Voice".
Mike: You definitely have a recognizable voice and in your line of work that's a good thing. You would not want your talent to be lost among the masses.