I was never trying to be the voice for anybody else. I was just trying to sing about what I was going through, and was singing about those things spe….

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….

It's unexpected for women's issues to be brought up in places other than women's centers on college campuses or crisis places..

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.….

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….

People are actually having conversations about "Is this sexist?".

I made the decision that my contribution needed to be more musical than political. My music was enough, politically. Art matters. Art was enough. My ….

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..

I really love that I'm giving myself the opportunity finally to not have the pressure of every single song you do having to be "political" or whateve….

If you really hate me, you should at least have the courtesy to take out a piece of paper and write it down and mail it to me. If you're a worthy nem….

There's still a lot of misogynist pop music out there, and I think that hearing something that's so explicitly feminist and so angry - when we're sti….

I'm not going to sit around and be peace and love with somebody's boot on my neck..

Certain people are like 'Oh, here come the Feminazis!' You end up acting 10 times nicer than you even need to be, to be the opposite of the stereotyp….

Johnny Rotten isn't punk. Maybe that's punk to somebody, but these people are participating and challenging the corporations that are telling us what….

A lot of artists are just really stupid about money, and it's really hard to find somebody who kind of thinks of shuffling money around and doing bus….

I stood in the bay window at our house and I sang Away In A Manger. It was my first time on stage, but there was nobody watching. I just remember it ….

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 felt it was really, really important, not just in the vein of feminist erasure or whatever but also just as an artist that I honored my work..

Sexism and racism and homophobia and classism are so naturalized. All these stereotypes make people think it's just normal that straight white men ar….

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 don't want to waste the precious moments I have, and I've felt that way since I was 17. I have to take risks because why else would you be alive? P….