I'm in a really lucky position where people will be interested in whatever I do, but what I do is sing.
Kathleen HannaPeople can be in a prison of their own mind. [There are] people who don't have their hearts open to other people's ideas, and can't listen to other people's ideas without feeling like they're being slapped in the face. Those people are more in a prison.
Kathleen HannaI always get โWhatโs wrong?โ or โLighten up.โ Half the time, when guys tell me to smile, Iโm not even frowning, Iโm thinking! Then Iโm like, Oh! Some men donโt want women to think! Do they all have walkie-talkies? Are they all in this together? Like, โOK, sheโs thinking, someone say something. Sheโs reading, go distract her.โ It starts feeling like that sometimes, doesnโt it?
Kathleen HannaThe more people, as you know, are able to be on whatever spectrum of femininity and masculinity they are on at that moment, that opens the door for women to not have to be the opposite of what the supposed traditional male is.
Kathleen HannaThe only thing I collect is art. I collect it because I like looking at it. A lot of it is really personal stuff that my friends have made, paintings that my husband's mother made, and things that I bought. I buy abstract art on eBay, and I buy some outsider art on eBay, or what is called folk art, I buy a lot of. I have a lot of professional art work as well as more stuff my friends' kids make. To have a wall of art to look at, I feel really surrounded by love, because so much of the work is related to my friendships.
Kathleen Hanna