I felt it was really, really important, not just in the vein of feminist erasure or whatever but also just as an artist that I honored my work.

It takes your mind off things when there's a cat in your lip and he's purring while you're petting him.

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.

Popularity is totally overrated.

Since I loved underground music, I tried to carve a space for feminism within it. Those were my hopes.

Me and my friends in high school were the only girls who went to hardcore shows. It was three of us, and the rest of the audience was male. We didn't really think about it. We weren't thinking we were alienated or whatever, but eventually, as there started to be violence in the scene we were in during high school, we started to be turned off by the violence.