I've watched so many women, from Kathleen Hanna all the way up to Taylor Swift, whether they're pop artists or rock stars or fine artists or writers, it is the subhistory of female artists that if you're going to make art, you're also going to have a full-time job of defending your right to make art.

The stage show is, in some sense, highly theatrical. It's definitely not just a band in jeans playing rock and roll.

Everyone I know shares toothbrushes. Everyone I know sleeps on each other's floor. Everyone I know uses what they've got and shares what they've got.

There's a huge cloud of shame around art and business being seen as bedfellows.

I do what I want. I try to be nice to everybody. When I fail, I try to apologize.

The world needs actual excitement and emotion more than it needs cool people.

The perfect tools aren't going to help us if we can't face each other and give and receive fearlessly, but more important, to ask without shame.