From the time I was a kid, I'd never joined groups. I hated high school groups. I hung out with hippies, musical people. I hung out with whomever I found compelling and interesting and smart. And I continued to do that throughout my life.

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.

Hip doesn't really come into play anymore as far as I can tell.

I think there are always different times in your life when you go, "Oh, god. I wish I were traditionally pretty. My life would be so much easier." But then you get through that, and you go, "Well, I'm not."

I would be dishonorable in a relationship because I wasn't getting what I wanted from that person.

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 tend to go against the grain because when I start to see that everybody's trying to shock, I try not to. I just do stuff that's subtler, more emotional, and I think that shocks people.