With Sleater-Kinney, we did a lot of improvisation in our live shows, and even our process of songwriting involved bringing in disparate parts and putting them together to form something cohesive.

I'm really drawn to the uncompromising realness of natural process: It's unadorned. It's not very pretty.

I've honestly always been an overly analytical, highly observant person. I was playing music but thinking about it at same time, which was sort of exhausting. Aside from the pain of writing - you're not really in a gang like you are in band, it's a little bit lonelier - I think it was always something that I'd wanted to do. So the transition wasn't abrupt or painful.

I think one of the reasons I haven't been doing music is because I think that some of my performance, like, needs are being taken care of in other mediums.

I think hip-hop does a very good job of infusing comedy and humor and wit into music, a lot more than other genres.

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

People are wearing fleece, which is a hard fabric to be angry in.