We're led by denial like lambs to slaughter, serving empires of style and carbonated sugar water.

I fight with love and i laugh with rage....you gotta live light enough to see the humor, and long enough to see some change.

I sing sometimes for the war that I fight, 'Cause every tool is a weapon if you hold it right.

I noticed with older songs that I perform that I'm coming from a different place with them now...it mutates the vibe and even the meaning of the same words when you have a different spirit, if the person singing is different. I like that, to be able to sing an emotionally wrought song from a more centered place, or to sing an eager, youthful song from a more experienced place. It kind of colors the songs differently, and it keeps them fresh.

I turned my pain into art and my hard work into a career. Helping myself has helped others. helping others has helped me.

There are so many things that we have to be very concerned about. But I always come back to feminism.

Music has as many roles as people make it. I traveled to Burma once years ago to witness the people's struggle for democracy, meet some people and learn some stuff. And I had this incredible experience over and over again in the Burmese jungle or refugee camps or health clinics with very oppressed, very devastated people. I show up, and I'm white and I'm American and I'm privileged and I have an experience that these people can't fathom and vice versa. There was this huge chasm when I met people for all good reasons.