We brainstorm an idea and then we do flesh it out a little bit - we come up with a script, mostly to have beats and a sense of a story and a narrative arc. Often when we get into the space and onto the location, that changes and something we discover in the moment becomes the moment, becomes the story, becomes the character.

It's so nice to have a band name you don't have to explain.

There are foods you should avoid. For me, sugar is a no. Because it gives me a spike and then a crash.

I really don't know what to do when my life is not chaotic.

I would love to do a reunion tour if it only involved basements across the U.S.

I have no desire to play music unless I need music.

After Sleater-Kinney broke up in 2006 I had very little desire to play music. It took well over three years before picking up a guitar meant anything to me other than an exercise.