There are so many great artists that are doing interesting things, that I don't want to focus on boring people.

The idea that musicians/artists have a responsibility to be community leaders or "role models" is problematic to me because I really believe that some of the most exciting art is not community-minded at least in any obvious or direct way, which is not to say that it is not ethical or consciousness-changing.

I'm not going to sit around and be peace and love with somebody's boot on my neck.

I like loud snare, and I like really treble-y guitars, and that's just never going to change.

I was in a band in the '90s called Bikini Kill, and we were so freaked out about documentation then, and there was the whole thing, not just about the male gaze, but that people were going to misrepresent you... a kind fear of the mainstream that a lot of us had.

Johnny Rotten isn't punk. Maybe that's punk to somebody, but these people are participating and challenging the corporations that are telling us what punk is and what good music is.

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.