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Popularity is totally overrated.

I am such a bossy producer and such a control freak that there's a part of me that really longs to be bossed around.

If people are like, 'Oh, you're an icon,' then whatever. But who thinks of themselves like that? It's not like I have posters of myself on the wall.

While sexism hurts women most intimately, it also damages men severely.

My mom and I had secret from my dad that we didn't think we were stupid, that we didn't think we needed feminism to be explained to us.

People have always had these weird things about how you have to be really good looking to be a singer.

If I had to choose between the band or the friendships, I'd choose the friendships at this point.

I can't constantly be trying to write the unwritten song, the song that the 15-year-old girl needs. I need to write the song that I need.

I would much rather be the obnoxious feminist girl than be complicit in my own dehumanization.

I would love to make a bunch of country demos and write country songs for really great country singers.

Art revolves around creating something that isn't there.

I like loud snare, and I like really treble-y guitars, and that's just never going to change.

Just because you're wearing a goofy hat doesn't make it performance art.

People are actually having conversations about "Is this sexist?"

I don't consider myself a divining rod whom God is speaking through or any kind of crap like that.

I'm not going to sit around and be peace and love with somebody's boot on my neck.

What usually happens with me [is that] I start with one idea in mind and then something else happens.

That's the great thing about music. You can find some '60s pop record and feel completely invigorated by it, even though it's so old.

Just because I'm a woman doesn't mean I'm the same as every other female singer.

Teachers are performers, just like I am.

I'm living in a world where there are LGBTQ straight alliances at high schools. I feel pretty psyched on that.

I realized that calling yourself a feminist or not calling yourself a feminist, just by being in a band of all girls, it's all you talk about.

Gay marriage! That's a huge change and a huge win-win for feminism.

I really like to talk about my work in a way that is complicated.

I'm not that interested in female superheroes.

I wanted to say to myself as much as anyone else that we made art.

Feminism is something you do. It's a verb. It's what you are. It's an activity; it's something you're actively engaged in.

Jason Mraz, and the new James Blunt song is the worst thing that has ever been created on the face of the earth.

I felt it was really, really important, not just in the vein of feminist erasure or whatever but also just as an artist that I honored my work.

I'm in a really lucky position where people will be interested in whatever I do, but what I do is sing.

I won't stop talking. I am a girl you have no control over. There is not a gag big enough to handle this mouth.

It takes your mind off things when there's a cat in your lip and he's purring while you're petting him.

I feel like there's this weird thing that as a feminist band you get put in this role as ambassadors.

Every band I've been in, it's just become my total life. I feel like a child star - I've missed out on so much.

Since I loved underground music, I tried to carve a space for feminism within it. Those were my hopes.

It's unexpected for women's issues to be brought up in places other than women's centers on college campuses or crisis places.

I wouldn't want to play Miss Hannigan. I'm not a villain. She's mean to little children! I can't do that. That would disrupt my brand.

Don't get down on yourself that you can't run a 4K or dance all night long at a fun club. Give yourself a break.

I think that the Internet is really cool because a lot of young feminists don't feel like they have to reinvent the wheel.

I think that feminism is in cycle. Feminism rotates between backlash and interest.

I wanted to make something that I wanted to hear that I wasn't hearing.

I know I love sexy surf guitars, I know I love loud snare. I love really simple repeating bass lines, and I love weird mad scientist keyboard sounds.

There are so many great artists that are doing interesting things, that I don't want to focus on boring people.

I wanna be a legend; I wanna be a cult hero. I do!

There are people who view their feminism in different ways. I used to beat myself up if I didn't react to things like I was supposed to.

I didn't even know what the word lesbian meant until I was called one ... and then I had to look it up in the dictionary.

The cool thing about the Internet is that it's allowing women more access to their own history.

I have no clue. I just know I would want to play the least amount of shows that the most people would be able to come to.

I feel like what I'm best at is being a musician and a performer. I want to use that to help people who are good at starting nonprofits.

I realized that I really enjoy writing comedy, and how important comedy is when you feel like total crap.

There's just as many different kinds of feminism as there are women in the world.

You guys are seriously missing out unless you all start listening to girls.

I just write what I want to write.

What happens tomorrow is going to happen tomorrow.

When you're a musician and you go out onstage, and you're someone who loves attention, you are going to become a role model to some extent.

I'm a very binary person in a bad way where it's like everything is either totally great or totally awful.

I've always been like, "Look, you're going to die and it's not going to matter after you die that you got out onstage and bombed."

I think music can definitely be art; I also think music can be crap and not be art.

I think as a culture, we don't like conflict or looking at icky stuff - especially in our downtime.

I think my biggest fear is dying. Although sometimes my biggest fear is not dying. But yeah, I think health stuff for me is more what I'm afraid of.

I need to see my friends or I'm gonna go crazy. I'm not gonna stay home and work.

Think of something that you can do as opposed to all the things you can't do - and do that.

There are more people who are not straight, white males going to shows.

Singing is my life, and I have to do it, or I'm going to go totally bananas.

I don't think I've ever had a woman yell that at me, but women have yelled mean things at me as well.

Internalized sexism that makes us feel like we can't show ourselves not being perfect.

It takes falling down a bunch of times before you start running.

As I've gotten older, I've realized that things are a lot more permeable. It's not so black and white: not every journalist is a jerk.

In the '90s, people wore scrunchies, but it was very uncool in the punk scene.

I never thought that someone would be teaching one of my fanzines. I never thought I'd be off to lecture at a college. It's still shocking to me.