When I was a teenager in the '80s, I was the only girl in the guitar shop. Now if you walk into a music store, it's mostly teenage girls. It's great! It's an expansion of possibilities for young women, finding a way to tools even if they aren't directly handed those tools by adults.

At night when you're asleep, self-hatred's going to creep in. And you can blame it on the devil, the one who's bed you sleep in.

And I was shocked, To see the mistakes of each generation, Will just fade like a radio station, If you drive out of range...

I'm an all powerful amazon warrior, not just some sniveling girl.

If you want to challenge the system, don't go to bed with it.

There are so many things that we have to be very concerned about. But I always come back to feminism. People look at me sideways now and are like, "With everything going on, the destruction of the environment, these endless wars, this capitalism that has a stranglehold on our culture and our world and you're talking about feminism still?"

I don't always feel lucky, but I'm smart enough to try.