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..

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'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….

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

In the '90s, people wore scrunchies, but it was very uncool in the punk scene..

It's so important for people in political groups to learn the difference between productive criticism and not. When it's about something you can chan….

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….

Since I loved underground music, I tried to carve a space for feminism within it. Those were my hopes..

I know what a good question would be for an actor. What's your least favorite thing that you've ever heard an actor say about acting? Or about being ….

I almost wish we would've filmed a whole fake tampon commercial around ["I'm With Her"]..

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

Taking care of yourself is the most important thing..

What I've heard from younger women and women my age is that the albums changed their lives or it was the first time they had heard feminism that they….

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….

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….

When you're a musician and you go out onstage, and you're someone who loves attention, you are going to become a role model to some extent..

It's really funny - when I'm depressed or I'm having a hard time, I'll write really fun stuff. And then when I'm really happy, I write really depress….

It takes your mind off things when there's a cat in your lip and he's purring while you're petting him..

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'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 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..