I don't consider myself a divining rod whom God is speaking through or any kind of crap like that..

Think of something that you can do as opposed to all the things you can't do - and do that..

I've always been like, "Look, you're going to die and it's not going to matter after you die that you got out onstage and bombed.".

I think music can definitely be art; I also think music can be crap and not be art..

What usually happens with me is that I start with one idea in mind and then something else happens..

People have always had these weird things about how you have to be really good looking to be a singer..

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..

I won't stop talking. I am a girl you have no control over. There is not a gag big enough to handle this mouth..

I think this whole Billy Bush thing just pushed women over the edge because it's so visceral..

Music is an extremely powerful art medium that can really affect people's emotions. It is amazing to realize how much communities can be born from di….

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….

As I've gotten older, I've realized that things are a lot more permeable. It's not so black and white: not every journalist is a jerk..

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..

There are more people who are not straight, white males going to shows..

The more people, as you know, are able to be on whatever spectrum of femininity and masculinity they are on at that moment, that opens the door for w….

For whatever reason I just remembered being six years old and my parents leaving the house and trusting me to be alone. I had an older sister, I thin….

There are so many great artists that are doing interesting things, that I don't want to focus on boring people..

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..

I'm just working and having a good time and seeing what develops, which is so awesome, because you don't know what's going to happen, and I'm letting….

I'm lucky enough to have been in the age before the internet and now during the internet. I'm grateful to be a witness to that. It's horse and buggy ….

I'm so language-based and I'm so about communicating, and my art has always been very audience-based, and very about being functional and communicati….