I think that feminism is in cycle. Feminism rotates between backlash and interest.

I stood in the bay window at our house and I sang Away In A Manger. It was my first time on stage, but there was nobody watching. I just remember it was so natural and it was such a secret - like masturbating. I felt like I had to wait until everybody was gone. So I guess six years old would be my most important age, 'cause in that moment, I just knew what I wanted to do.

Johnny Rotten isn't punk. Maybe that's punk to somebody, but these people are participating and challenging the corporations that are telling us what punk is and what good music is.

It's unexpected for women's issues to be brought up in places other than women's centers on college campuses or crisis places.

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

Since I loved underground music, I tried to carve a space for feminism within it. Those were my hopes.

There's still a lot of misogynist pop music out there, and I think that hearing something that's so explicitly feminist and so angry - when we're still growing up in a culture where girls and women are not supposed to be angry - is a real revelation for young women.