When you're an artist, nobody ever tells you or hits you with the magic wand of legitimacy. You have to hit your own head with your own handmade wand. And you feel stupid doing it.

There was a dance that everyone was doing that was heavily skewed with the power in one direction, but the dance was basically working, and then the dance got really disrupted with the first wave of feminism, and nobody found their footing yet - not the guys, not the women.

If you come across an American artist right now who has no political opinions or is afraid of talking politics, be very concerned.

I crave intimacy to the same burning degree that I detest commitment.

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

Twitter fascinates me because it's real. It feels kind of unreal, but it makes very real things happen.

Sometimes I have a terrible feeling that I am dying not from the virus, but from being untouchable.