Part of being in a band, being a painter, or starting a nonprofit is that you're going to make horrible mistakes and look like a total idiot, but you're never going to create that thing that really connects with people if you don't fail over and over and over again.

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

I didn't even know what the word lesbian meant until I was called one... and then I had to look it up in the dictionary.

I can't constantly be trying to write the unwritten song, the song that the 15-year-old girl needs. I need to write the song that I need.

Art revolves around creating something that isn't there.

My mom and I had secret from my dad that we didn't think we were stupid, that we didn't think we needed feminism to be explained to us.

Popularity is totally overrated.