I've always been interested in queerness and underground and fringe and periphery, and who and what flourishes in those spaces. Those spaces that are….

The internet is just a scary place. It's better to just go to the doctor. Don't let Google get inside your head. It will do bad things to you..

I think that there's always an assumption, when a band goes on hiatus or stops playing, that there's some acrimony brewing under the surface..

I have no desire to play music unless I need music..

I think you should be prepared for a green-screen CGI at all times..

Even if, personally, I'm in a place of contentment or solidity, I feel like it's hard not to look out into American culture and see vast inequity, wi….

What I value most in new music today is strangeness, oddity. Passion. And humor. I listen to a lot of hip-hop because it combines so many things like….

You'd hope that no writing about music could supersede the music itself. But I do think that blogs mirror the way that we are listening. It comes at ….

The game Rock Band has been haunting me like a bad ring tone. It gets stuck in my head and momentarily effaces all that I love about music..

The enemy of any artistic statement is to create something that no one cares about, in the sense they have no opinion either way..

I would not call myself an optimist, even though I would aspire to be. I am innately a skeptic. There's kind of an incessant dissatisfaction that I h….

I really don't know what to do when my life is not chaotic..

These new bands sound like Gang of Four — if Gang of Four sucked..

I think, for some artists, the fear of taking on a political identity stems from not wanting to be pigeonholed as political actor or a political musi….

I wrote so much about fandom and participation for NPR that I eventually realized my most fertile way of participating in music is to actually play i….

Music has always been my constant, my salvation. It's cliche to write that, but it's true..

"We can't name it, but we can sing along." That is my ultimate relationship to any art form, but especially music..

For a while I had somebody that came to clean my house that turned out to be in a band that I really loved..

To be a fan is to be curious, and to be curious is to have openness... Part of being a fan is to allow 360 degrees of experience - to immerse without….

After Sleater-Kinney broke up in 2006 I had very little desire to play music. It took well over three years before picking up a guitar meant anything….

Once you're away from music, I realize that's as intrinsic to who I am as anything else. That's the part that takes me out of my brain..