Occupation: Musician Birth: November 12, 1968
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..
What usually happens with me is that I start with one idea in mind and then something else happens..
People can be in a prison of their own mind. [There are] people who don't have their hearts open to other people's ideas, and can't listen to other p….
I realized that calling yourself a feminist or not calling yourself a feminist, just by being in a band of all girls, it's all you talk about..
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….
My mom and I had secret from my dad that we didn't think we were stupid, that we didn't think we needed feminism to be explained to us..
I am not Lyme disease, that's not who I am, I'm still a feminist artist, but this is a part of my story too, and I'm not going to keep it out to look….
Not to rag on myself, but when people say, 'What does it feel like to be an icon?' I'm like, 'My dog does not think I'm an icon, my cat does not thin….
When you're the person who's kind of in charge of everything a lot of the time, it's sometimes nice to get bossed around. It's sometimes nice to have….
I'm really going off of watching John Waters speak one time and I remember he just kind of talked and it was totally interesting. I wanted to hear ab….
I really like to talk about my work in a way that is complicated..
I wouldn't want to play Miss Hannigan. I'm not a villain. She's mean to little children! I can't do that. That would disrupt my brand..
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..
I know that's really horrible, but that's how I do it in my head. I'm going to die. It doesn't matter. I don't matter. I'm a grain of sand. As a grai….
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..
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 don't think I've ever had a woman yell that at me, but women have yelled mean things at me as well..
In the '90s, people wore scrunchies, but it was very uncool in the punk scene..
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….
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….