I wanna be a legend; I wanna be a cult hero. I do!.

I was lucky enough to go to college for four years. At what was supposedly a hippie school with no tests and no grades, blah blah blah, I wasn't lear….

As I've gotten older, I've realized that things are a lot more permeable. It's not so black and white: not every journalist is a jerk..

It's really funny - when I'm depressed or I'm having a hard time, I'll write really fun stuff. And then when I'm really happy, I write really depress….

My political views have definitely changed over the years. Maybe a better way of saying it is that I have grown into my convictions; the values and i….

I think the [fan] access is complicated, because it brings wonderful things into my life, and it brings really negative things into my life. I just t….

I got hit up for a tampon commercial and so I asked [JD and Jo] if they had anything. Jo sent that over and I was like, "I love this track. Oh my god….

It's the idea that we as people can control our own destinies. The government and the corporations, more even than the government, can't dictate what….

I never thought that someone would be teaching one of my fanzines. I never thought I'd be off to lecture at a college. It's still shocking to me..

I'm sure if you see things you wrote when you were 19, you cringe. I saw stuff like angry poetry that I wrote when I was mad at my father, or photos ….

The cool thing about the Internet is that it's allowing women more access to their own history..

I'm just working and having a good time and seeing what develops, which is so awesome, because you don't know what's going to happen, and I'm letting….

It takes your mind off things when there's a cat in your lip and he's purring while you're petting him..

When you're a musician and you go out onstage, and you're someone who loves attention, you are going to become a role model to some extent..

Don't get down on yourself that you can't run a 4K or dance all night long at a fun club. Give yourself a break..

Clearly, gay marriage is on the top of the agenda right now. It's pretty amazing, considering where stuff was at when I was in high-school, when ther….

I really like to talk about my work in a way that is complicated..

Every time I get sexually harassed, I'm supposed to turn around and yell at the person, but there are safety issues. Sometimes the best thing you can….

I know I love sexy surf guitars, I know I love loud snare. I love really simple repeating bass lines, and I love weird mad scientist keyboard sounds..

I think open adoption is a great idea, because it allows a relationship between the birth mother and her child so that the kid isn't like, "Where did….

I just write what I want to write..