My main tactic is to focus on the people I respect. The people I think are great people. Do I have their respect? Do I have their support? If the answer is "yes," then I'm doing ok.

I see a lot of young female performers who do not call themselves feminist, but would certainly believe in their own right to self-determination, and wouldn't want anybody to stop them from becoming themselves. They just refuse to recognize the relationship between their lives and those of other women, or feel any solidarity there.

We negotiate with chaos for some sense of satisfaction.

We get a little further from perfection, each year on the road, I guess that's what they call character, I guess that's just the way it goes, better to be dusty than polished, like some store window mannequin, why don't you touch me where i'm rusty, let me stain your hands

Vulnerability is something that I negotiate every day.

You've already put more than enough energy into worry. That's all women have been allowed to do, historically.

Don't tell me what they did to you as though you had no choice. Tell me, isn't that your picture? Isn't that your voice.