Jason Mraz, and the new James Blunt song is the worst thing that has ever been created on the face of the earth.
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.
You guys are seriously missing out unless you all start listening to girls.
I think one things that’s really important in the boy community or whatever, or the boy things, is like, to realize that oppression is a two-way street. You know what I mean? That it’s like, white men are really missing out – I don’t wanna say white men are oppressed but...
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 kind of decided that doing music is enough because I’m already running a couple small businesses. I’m a part of Bikini Kill Records, Le Tigre Records, and Digitally Ruined Records. In dealing with my health and everything, my ability to do that? I wouldn’t be good at it.
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 of it?
I wanted to say to myself as much as anyone else that we made art.
I wanted to make something that I wanted to hear that I wasn’t hearing.
I wanna be a legend; I wanna be a cult hero. I do!
I think music can definitely be art; I also think music can be crap and not be art.
I think as a culture, we don’t like conflict or looking at icky stuff – especially in our downtime.
I really like to talk about my work in a way that is complicated.
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.
I just write what I want to write.
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.
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.
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 depressing stuff.
I would love to make a bunch of country demos and write country songs for really great country singers.
I’m in a really lucky position where people will be interested in whatever I do, but what I do is sing.