Occupation: Musician Birth: November 12, 1968
I can't constantly be trying to write the unwritten song, the song that the 15-year-old girl needs. I need to write the song that I need..
I didn't even know what the word lesbian meant until I was called one... and then I had to look it up in the dictionary..
You learn that the only way to get rock-star power as a girl is to be a groupie and bare your breasts and get chosen for the night. We learn that the….
So many women have experienced horrific forms of male violence throughout their lives, and why isn't there a song about how you get depressed because….
I don't appreciate it when women - or men - bandy about these stupid stereotypes about feminism that are age-old, and that are meant to keep people t….
It's really cool that Miley Cyrus said she's the biggest feminist ever. I was like, 'That's the sound of 200,000 eight-year-olds Googling the word "f….
I just write what I want to write..
What (some) bands do is go, 'It's not important that I'm a girl, it's just important that I want to rock.' And that's cool. But that's more of an ass….
I wanted to say to myself as much as anyone else that we made art..
Women didn't want to be on the stage with other women because they didn't want their bodies to be compared. They didn't want another female act openi….
I think that the Internet is really cool because a lot of young feminists don't feel like they have to reinvent the wheel..
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….
Every day it gets worse and worse and worse. We just want to get everyone to vote and be a part of the noise. I can't do phone banks because I have t….
I was making stickers for guys' bands. I was in the front row photographing bands, booking bands, doing all of the kind of backstage stuff, and I did….
Gay marriage! That's a huge change and a huge win-win for feminism..
Young girls getting into feminism..
Just because you're wearing a goofy hat doesn't make it performance art..
My mom wasn't, like, she was reading all these historical romance novels the majority of the time. She read a feminist book and then my dad would sit….
There are people who view their feminism in different ways. I used to beat myself up if I didn't react to things like I was supposed to..
I'm more interested in a feminism that ends discrimination for all people. It's not just about a woman becoming the CEO of a company or something. It….
I get emails every day from people saying, "I never heard your music. I don't know anything about you. I just happened to watch this on Netflix. I ho….