Girls are crazy and mean. They don't fight fair.

You have to defend your honor. And your family.

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.

It takes as much discipline to be a mother and a wife as it does to do anything else.

I didn't go out looking for fights as a kid, but if it was necessary, I'd fight. Fighting was a daily thing where we lived.

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.

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.