"Alanis Morrisette inspired me to express how I was feeling." One of 2000s metal's early stars on being a teenage rockstar, breaking up nu metal's boys club and the art of failure

Morgan Lander Kittie press shot with kitties.

Morgan Lander was born to be brilliant. When she was eight years old, the Kittie singer formed her first band with her then six-year-old sister, Kittie drummer Mercedes.

“We called ourselves the Beautiful Bitches,” she hoots. “We were literal children. But that was the mindset of where we were at, and maybe who we were destined to be.”