It's really hard for me to sing and play bass.

You can't be a strong or cool woman and be represented except in a harsh way, looking mean and cold and hard. It's like reverse sexism.

At the end of the day, women are expected to hold up the world, not annihilate it.

I always think of baseball as so existential. Like, you're just out there in a field, in a big expanse of green grass.

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

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.

Rap music is really good when you're traumatized.