I dont think gender is aesthetically defining for me.

You have to defend your honor. And your family.

My mother wanted me to understand that as a woman I could do pretty much whatever I wanted to, that I didn't have to use sex or sexuality to define myself.

I had some fears as a kid, but I was also relatively fearless. Maybe that's a result of living half the time in reality and the other half in fantasy.

I still consider myself a feminist.

It's striking how commercially viable that impulse for instant intimacy is right now, especially in songs and writing.

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