When you're a musician and you go out onstage, and you're someone who loves attention, you are going to become a role model to some extent.

I'm living in a world where there are LGBTQ straight alliances at high schools. I feel pretty psyched on that.

I realized that calling yourself a feminist or not calling yourself a feminist, just by being in a band of all girls, it's all you talk about.

I made the decision that my contribution needed to be more musical than political. My music was enough, politically. Art matters. Art was enough. My music was enough to say what I had to say.

I think the [fan] access is complicated, because it brings wonderful things into my life, and it brings really negative things into my life. I just try to keep the negative stuff at arm's length. Laugh at it and walk away.

See who else is interested and join other people's projects that have already started that you like. You don't always have to reinvent the wheel and start your own thing.

Feminism is something you do. It's a verb. It's what you are. It's an activity; it's something you're actively engaged in.