Her maternal uncle is jazz guitar virtuoso Tuck Andress of Tuck & Patti. As a teenager she spent summers as their roadie on tours of Asia and the United States. After graduating high school she was their tour manager in Europe.
Began playing guitar when she was 12. Her first public performance was when she was 15.
Her parents divorced when she was three. She moved from Tulsa, Oklahoma to Texas when her mother remarried.
Played guitar in a hard-core band called the Skull Fuckers.
Has two sisters.
Has four half-siblings from father's second marriage.