My job is to confront apathy and confront all the forces that tend to batter each of us down with all kind of oppression, even self-oppression. I consider that the main job of the art that I do- to rattle the cage, wake people up, wake myself up, confront all that would conspire to keep us down.

Part of the charm of what I do is the fact that its completely unrelated to everything that came before.

I'm like a one-woman protest machine.

I used to think feminism was a liberating force - now I see many of those people are just censors under a different name.

I just prefer instrumental. I don't need to hear what other people are singing. And if I need music as a backdrop to work or to think, I need to have that part of the brain clear - I don't need people feeding their fantasies into my vision.

Politics are always involved, even in my love songs.

The need to document my insanity is an affliction I have not yet cured myself of.