Well, it was kind of accidental that Jim started playing with us, although it wasn't sudden... we hadn't really looked around to think who could be a fifth member.

Many designers are gay men making clothes for women. Sometimes I think fashion is more of a conversation between men than it is for women.

Culturally we don't allow women to be as free as they would like, because that is frightening. We either shun those women or deem them crazy… But being that woman who pushes the boundaries means you also bring in less desirable aspects of yourself. At the end of the day, women are expected to hold up the world, not annihilate it.

L.A. prides itself on newness or being the last frontier or just not liking old things and tearing them down to build new things.

Unless you're singing something that's kind of in rhythm with the bass, the melodies, it's just difficult.

Someone once wrote that in between the lives we lead and the lives we fantasize about living is the place in our heads where most of us actually live.

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