I mean, who made up all the rules in the culture? Men-white male corporate society. So why wouldnt a woman want to rebel against that?

I just happened to start playing music for the conceptual ideas.

I mean, I don't even think of myself as a musician, really.

For me performing has a lot to do with being fearless.

Clothes are signifiers and symbols of how people communicate with each other.

I tend to want to listen to melancholy music, but sometimes if you're feeling too sad, you can't.

In retrospect, it's ridiculous that anyone saw me as a fashion icon, since all I was trying to do was to dumb down my middle-class look by messing with my hair. Throughout the eighties I was invariably half-sure and half-confident about whatever it was I wore…Still, I've always believed—still do—that the radical is far more interesting when it looks benign and ordinary on the outside.