How weird it was to drive streets I knew so well. What a different perspective.

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.

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.

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.

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

I like to write about things that are extreme in some form. I like to write about something I feel I have to write about.