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 love coffee. I love a midday espresso on set, just for the energy.

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

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

I'm interested in the crevices, and the grotesque, and the unsavory. That started out when I was young... I've never quite been able to shake that.

The enemy of any artistic statement is to create something that no one cares about, in the sense they have no opinion either way.

For a while I had somebody that came to clean my house that turned out to be in a band that I really loved.