Me and my friends in high school were the only girls who went to hardcore shows. It was three of us, and the rest of the audience was male. We didn't really think about it. We weren't thinking we were alienated or whatever, but eventually, as there started to be violence in the scene we were in during high school, we started to be turned off by the violence.

I don't consider myself a divining rod whom God is speaking through or any kind of crap like that.

I think music can definitely be art; I also think music can be crap and not be art.

I was making stickers for guys' bands. I was in the front row photographing bands, booking bands, doing all of the kind of backstage stuff, and I didn't even think for a second I could do it, and then I saw Babes in Toyland, and all that changed.

I can't constantly be trying to write the unwritten song, the song that the 15-year-old girl needs. I need to write the song that I need.

I wanted to make something that I wanted to hear that I wasn't hearing.

People have always had these weird things about how you have to be really good looking to be a singer.