To me, a feminist belong in the same category as a humanist or an advocate for human rights. I don't see why someone who's a feminist should be thought of differently.

I think that if you have a strong narrative, if the idea of the song can be boiled down to the basics, it won't change that much.

My intellect has always been more responsible than my emotions for how I respond to the world.

But I never want to get to the point where I write a safe song or one that represents my sense of a subject in order to appear civilized.

A lot of my writing is not terribly civilized. Sometimes I listen to songs by very smart writers who assume that the world is a civil place with certain formalities that people follow, but I don't see things that way. My own experience tells me that life is not like that. That's why I write the way I do.

Don't make a threat and then not do it.

To me, a feminist belong in the same category as a humanist or an advocate for human rights. I don't see why someone who's a feminist should be thought of differently.