Women make natural anarchists and revolutionaries, because they've always been second-class citizens, kinda having had to claw their way up.

Anyone becomes mannered if you think too much about what other people think

Fashion, at modern time, was actually a way for women to go out in the world. There was one painting of a woman sitting at a café, drinking a beer by herself and kind of pretending to read but really watching people, that sort of thing. It fascinated me.

I just think that playing bass, like punk rock bass with a pick, wasn't meant to be done for 25 years.

Because our daughters have school and it's just such a hassle going down to New York all the time, we can really only go on the weekends, we kind of... Steve came up here and worked out stuff for the second half of the record.

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

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