[I hate] the ways that people want their special needs to be met, whether it's their food allergies or their special lotions or shoes. Or the ways that people want their neighborhoods and restaurants curated in a way that's really tailored to them. Growing up with someone who was living by these very strict, repressive rules for themselves - it made me very allergic to the idea of denial.

Over the years, music put a weapon in my hand and words in my mouth it backed me up and shielded me, it shook me and scared me and showed me the way; music opened me up to living and being and feeling.

Music has always been my constant, my salvation. It's cliche to write that, but it's true.

I feel like I came in comedy's side door, and still feel very fraudulent in many ways.

I will say, as a woman, when you put a mustache on, you find out a lot of things about yourself.

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.

"We can't name it, but we can sing along." That is my ultimate relationship to any art form, but especially music.