Every band I've been in, it's just become my total life. I feel like a child star - I've missed out on so much.

I'm not a goddess, for crying out loud. I'm a regular person who took feminism - which I have a deep connection to - and mixed it with music, which I really love to do.

Most of my records are never going to be commercial successes, and I don't expect that. It's just all a learning process to me. If something appears as a failure, fine. If there's success, fine. I like the record, and my friends like the record, and that's kind of all I can really care about.

I would love to make a bunch of country demos and write country songs for really great country singers.

If I had to choose between the band or the friendships, I'd choose the friendships at this point.

There are more people who are not straight, white males going to shows.

If you really hate me, you should at least have the courtesy to take out a piece of paper and write it down and mail it to me. If you're a worthy nemesis, I want to see your handwriting. I want to see your name and your address, and if you don't have the guts to give me those, then you're not a worthy nemesis.