Everybody wasn't always wasted. Why is punk rock about getting wasted? Isn't it punk rock to be sober and change the world? I thought it was about challenging capitalism? How are you going to challenge capitalism if you're wasted?

Just because I'm a woman doesn't mean I'm the same as every other female singer.

There are people who view their feminism in different ways. I used to beat myself up if I didn't react to things like I was supposed to.

A lot of artists are just really stupid about money, and it's really hard to find somebody who kind of thinks of shuffling money around and doing business as an art.

People need to stand up, women need to stand up for each other and say, "No you can't kick this person like they're a dog. You can disagree with someone politically, you can have arguments, definitely privilege needs to be discussed in real productive and valid ways. But it's not real criticism if it's just like, "you're a disgusting bad person."

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

Gay marriage! That's a huge change and a huge win-win for feminism.