I saw a video on YouTube of a girl who had very similar reactions to late-stage Lyme disease as I did. And I thought it was crazy. And when I saw her….

I always knew she was being funny, but when I tell my therapist that my mom played the trust game with me and let me fall on the ground, my therapist….

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 like loud snare, and I like really treble-y guitars, and that's just never going to change..

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….

I feel like there's this weird thing that as a feminist band you get put in this role as ambassadors..

If people are like, 'Oh, you're an icon,' then whatever. But who thinks of themselves like that? It's not like I have posters of myself on the wall..

Find something that makes you happy, like looking at beautiful pictures, or, if you're able, listening to beautiful music, or sitting by the window a….

I talked a lot early on in my career about intersectionality and how racism and classism and sexism and homophobia and capitalism are all connected w….

Just because you're wearing a goofy hat doesn't make it performance art..

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..

I am such a bossy producer and such a control freak that there's a part of me that really longs to be bossed around..

I think that it's so powerful for me to go see someone like Bridget Everett at Joe's Pub and watch her weave her songs in and out of these funny, tra….

It takes falling down a bunch of times before you start running..

I watch videos on YouTube of bands that I've heard of that I want to check out. And sometimes I don't even finish the video. And that's really sad, b….

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 realized that I really enjoy writing comedy, and how important comedy is when you feel like total crap..

I was in a band in the '90s called Bikini Kill, and we were so freaked out about documentation then, and there was the whole thing, not just about th….

My mom was a housewife, and wasn't somebody that people would think of as a feminist, and when Ms. Magazine came out we were incredibly inspired by i….

I always tell girls who say they want to start a band but don't have any talent, well, neither do I. I mean, I can carry a tune, but anyone who picks….

I think that's such an important message, especially for younger women, to know, 'I don't have to come out of the womb painting like Frida Kahlo. My ….