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 communicating something, and about feeling like I have to be heard.
Taking care of yourself is the most important thing.
Think of something that you can do as opposed to all the things you can’t do – and do that.
I’m a very binary person in a bad way where it’s like everything is either totally great or totally awful.
I realized that I really enjoy writing comedy, and how important comedy is when you feel like total crap.
Find something that makes you happy, like looking at beautiful pictures, or, if you’re able, listening to beautiful music, or sitting by the window and looking outside – small things like that can be absolutely huge.
I’m not a goddess, for crying out loud. I’m a regular person who took feminism – which I have a deep connection to – and mixed it with music, which I really love to do.
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 felt like going out on the road and mixing it with music – which is something young people are always really interested in – would be a good way to proselytize. It was like feminist evangelism.
I think my biggest fear is dying. Although sometimes my biggest fear is not dying. But yeah, I think health stuff for me is more what I’m afraid of.
Sometimes, being a feminist artist, there are times where I’m in a position where I just want to feel like I’m saying all the right things politically, or I feel like I have to mention my own project over other people’s projects.
I don’t like being in the service industry and having to deal with people yelling at me all the time. McDonald’s was the hardest job I ever had – so I have a lot of respect for people who work in the fast food industry. Because it’s a hard job.
Internalized sexism that makes us feel like we can’t show ourselves not being perfect.
It takes falling down a bunch of times before you start running.
I have no clue. I just know I would want to play the least amount of shows that the most people would be able to come to.
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 possibly thinking about doing an Internet show in the future that will highlight political organizations that I seek out to let people know about them, volunteer opportunities, and donation opportunities.
I think that feminism is in cycle. Feminism rotates between backlash and interest.
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 whatever. I’m just making what I wanna make.
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 down and explain it to her like she was an idiot.