Certain people are like 'Oh, here come the Feminazis!' You end up acting 10 times nicer than you even need to be, to be the opposite of the stereotype like 'You're the man haters!' We're always bending over backwards being extra nice. And I don't know if being nice is my legacy.

I'm really annoyed by the wave of country music that's just a list of stuff. It almost sounds like L.A. people writing country music, because it's just a list of stuff: 'My pickup truck and my cowboy boots and my Levi's jeans and my girlfriend with the short shorts.' It's so boring!

It feels amazing and beautiful that music can have such an importance on the way that people form social groups. Music can change people. People can change the world.

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

I'm not that interested in female superheroes.

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

Later as things progressed and I saw the direct correlation between being able to keep making records and having people know about the music, I became more interested in using popular media as a way to get the word out.