I think open adoption is a great idea, because it allows a relationship between the birth mother and her child so that the kid isn't like, "Where did I come from?" And to have it be like, "Look, you have a bunch of people who love you."

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 have no clue. I just know I would want to play the least amount of shows that the most people would be able to come to.

The exciting thing about getting a label together and doing press for it is that hopefully some 15-year-old girl who is the only feminist in her junior-high class will hear about it and be like, "Oh, cool, I hadn't heard of that, I'm going to check it out."

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

Whatever your personality was before, an illness makes it that plus a thousand. I'm a very binary person in a bad way where it's like everything is either totally great or totally awful. I don't understand grey area that well, and I've been working at that.

What usually happens with me is that I start with one idea in mind and then something else happens.