I feel an extraordinary amount of sympathy for anybody working at a major label right now because their lives are over.

I think being a woman in any business that's dominated by men, you have your garden variety pros and cons, where you learn how to focus and harness your various powers and weaknesses for better or for good.

The challenge is to just focus on what's actually happening, focus on the people who get it, and focus on the people who are listening.

How you sound. How you look. Are you fat? Those are things that could be really irritating.

There's nothing more threatening than a powerful woman, and there's nothing more threatening to the current order of things than women powerfully owning their own narrative. It's so threatening to people, to women as well, and it's threatening the order of things.

If we can repair things emotionally, a lot of other things would follow.

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.