Occupation: Musician Birth: November 12, 1968
When you speak up about any sense of unfairness or injustice, you're told that you're overreacting, you're too angry, too silly-shut up already. It t….
Feminism is something you do. It's a verb. It's what you are. It's an activity; it's something you're actively engaged in..
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..
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..
When I first started out I actually was trying to use music to promote feminist ideas and at certain points, anti-violence against women and girls-ty….
I would love to make a bunch of country demos and write country songs for really great country singers..
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….
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….
When I get stressed out my de-stress default is - not cat videos - but I just watch his surrogates. They're so entertaining. It's like escapees from ….
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..
The cool thing about the Internet is that it's allowing women more access to their own history..
I wanted to make something that I wanted to hear that I wasn't hearing..
It's not like somewhere along the way I decided to be a total formalist in terms of music and to not care about content; the content is going to be t….
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….
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 feel like what I'm best at is being a musician and a performer. I want to use that to help people who are good at starting nonprofits..
No one's female and male, we all have so many different traits. It's just a lie that these certain traits are male and these certain traits are femal….
Whatever your personality was before, an illness makes it that plus a thousand. I'm a very binary person in a bad way where it's like everything is e….
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 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 like loud snare, and I like really treble-y guitars, and that's just never going to change..