Music is an extremely powerful art medium that can really affect people's emotions. It is amazing to realize how much communities can be born from different kinds of music and the people who appreciate them.

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

I feel like there's this weird thing that as a feminist band you get put in this role as ambassadors.

It's not like somewhere along the way I decided to be a total formalist in terms of music and to not care about content; the content is going to be there whether I try to make it be there or not, and I can have fun and see what happens.

I feel like what I'm best at is being a musician and a performer. I want to use that to help people who are good at starting nonprofits.

It's the idea that we as people can control our own destinies. The government and the corporations, more even than the government, can't dictate what artwork we're supposed to like or what comedy we're supposed to laugh at.

I don't think I've ever had a woman yell that at me, but women have yelled mean things at me as well.