When I was a kid Ellen DeGeneres and Rosie O'Donnell were mere blips on the gaydar; and they were both still in the closet..

I feel sorry... for people who've had skinny privilege and then have it taken away from them. I have had a lifetime to adjust to seeing how people tr….

For my group of friends is Lady Gaga eye-opening? No. She's a less dangerous version of what was so cool about pop culture in the 80s. Back then it w….

Just like my straight friends, I am repeatedly asked when I plan to have kids, and have been told many times, by various branches of my bloodline, th….

I just like food too much, and I don't want to change. I spent so much of childhood trying to change, and I just got sick of it ... I don't want to l….

Sometimes love can mean letting go and loving each other from a distance. Maybe that's what you're feeling?.

If you have a therapist who agrees with your every word, then your brain isn't getting proper exercise..

Olympia was a town crawling with music. I was new to the whole punk scene. The culture shock continued; Olympia had bagels! We didn't have bagels in ….

We have to stop this idea that we have to be a certain shape..

I was born fat and have always been, which was just fine and even healthy and cute until I turned ten or so. Puberty hit like a hurricane and brought….

I hate to do what I'm told, that's why I'm not good at 9-to-5s..

For years now I have run a kitchen-sink punk salon in my house, called Salon du Gay. In the early days, people would pay for a riot grrrl bob or a pa….

We were a small group of weirdos and baby punks and gays and free spirits who had to use our imaginations a lot. We only saw pictures and read zines,….

I find inspiration everywhere. I love challenges and my favorite thing is to find something ridiculous and be like "if it's all that I have available….

It's funny how something so normal and mundane that you see every day-your body-can be controversial. The shock value is intense. It's like carrying ….

I always was really confident about myself, about my voice, myself as a person, my body, all of those things, but as a songwriter - I just didn't ide….

I don't get mad with people, like, 'Oh, but that's not what the song was about...' It's also nice to know that people are mindlessly dancing to a son….

A weird thing about Gossip that I've always said: "If I weren't in this band, I would never listen to it." But I would go see it. It's a band you wou….

This is how I feel about everything that's out of your control: once you make a record, it's not yours anymore. There's nothing you can do. It's the ….

I'm a great believer in karma and the vengeance that it serves up to those who are deliberately mean is generally enough for me..

Starting out really punk came from not knowing any better and listening to music like that, not knowing how to play music - well, still not knowing h….