You have to take the basics of feminism and the kind of outline of it and do what you do with it. You have to make things work for your own life.

The real terrorist threats are George W. Bush and his band of brown-shirted thugs.

When you're watching the news, how many days in a row can you watch that and feel good about yourself and the world?

I really thought I wanted to be a musical-comedy star, but I lived in Phoenix and didn't want to go all the way to New York and be that far away from home. So I thought maybe I'd be a rock 'n' roll singer or an opera singer.

I don't like going back and listening to myself. It makes me uncomfortable, and I know I can never emulate what I did that night, so why listen to it?

Anything that has cynicism to it and that's jaded is smutty.

I can't tell you 100 percent what makes a relationship work. But I can see something good coming and I can see something bad coming.