I'm a feminist, of course, and I feel as if I'm very politically correct, although I do question what's PC and what's not - I don't just accept what I'm told.

Starting out really punk came from not knowing any better and listening to music like that, not knowing how to play music - well, still not knowing how to play music.

I don't feel famous and I didn't want my autobiography to be like a Paris Hilton story.

When I moved out of my mom's house at 18 I was almost as sad to leave her sewing machine behind as anything else.

We were a small group of weirdos and baby punks and gays and free spirits who had to use our imaginations a lot. We only saw pictures and read zines, so we could only interpret the aesthetic and message of punk scenes around the world. We were basically the duck-billed platypuses of punk.

Why wear pants when you can wear a muumuu?

A beautiful plant is like having a friend around the house.