I was always embarrassed because my dad wore a suit and my mother wore flat pumps and a cozy jumper while my friends' parents were punks or hippies.

Until we command the exact same salary as every male counterpart, I feel a political desire to stand by other women. If we don't stand together, that equality will never be fully realized, and that bothers me.

I am naive. I make mistakes - But I don't give a rat's arse how I am perceived!

The truth is, I've always been wracked with self-loathing and terrible, paralysing depression.

Being a musician makes you very - musicians in general tend to be quite sensitive, I think, to the environment around them, which helps when you are trying to interact with others on screen, to be aware, to be sensitive, and to try to understand what's going on in the scene.

I've always been an outsider. I am an outsider in Garbage. I'm the odd one out by default.

I think women in pop have been declawed and defanged, and they're just meant to look pretty and sing pretty.