I was talking to somebody about the L.A. hardcore scene, and they were saying that it was hard for them to picture punk rock at the beach. Like, the aesthetic didn't mix or something - black forms in the sand.

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?

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 always felt like an outsider to the music world in a certain way. There was so much less of an art culture in L.A. - and particularly in the South Bay.

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.

I'm really nostalgic for Malibu area because I've spent so much time there. People don't think of California as having a history.

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