Occupation: Musician Birth: November 12, 1968
I'm not sure Riot Grrrl would have been as big a deal if the Internet had existed back then. Because there's so much stuff on the Internet. People co….
Everybody wasn't always wasted. Why is punk rock about getting wasted? Isn't it punk rock to be sober and change the world? I thought it was about ch….
I've always been like, "Look, you're going to die and it's not going to matter after you die that you got out onstage and bombed.".
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….
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..
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….
I've always thought that "punk" wasn't really a genre. My band started in Olympia where K Records was and K Records put out music that didn't sound s….
It takes your mind off things when there's a cat in your lip and he's purring while you're petting him..
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..
I think my biggest fear is dying. Although sometimes my biggest fear is not dying. But yeah, I think health stuff for me is more what I'm afraid of..
One of the reasons I went back to music even though I was extremely ill was because I started to forget who I was aside from being sick. And when I'm….
My vision of punk rock was these dudes who were spitting on the audience and moshing. That's why I kind of left that scene. Then I see all these peop….
In 1985, I was living with my sister in Virginia, and since I was still in high school, I worked at McDonald's to save money to get an abortion. It s….
My illness has changed me - I've always thought "life is short and I wanna make as much of it as I can," but I really don't have time to mess around.….
It was one of the first things I did on my own; I worked at McDonald's, raised the money and did it. I'm really, really passionate about pro-choice, ….
It's so important for people in political groups to learn the difference between productive criticism and not. When it's about something you can chan….
I'm not a goddess, for crying out loud. I'm a regular person who took feminism - which I have a deep connection to - and mixed it with music, which I….
I'm so language-based and I'm so about communicating, and my art has always been very audience-based, and very about being functional and communicati….
I have no clue. I just know I would want to play the least amount of shows that the most people would be able to come to..
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 ….
I'm living in a world where there are LGBTQ straight alliances at high schools. I feel pretty psyched on that..