Popularity Is Totally Overrated.

Just Because I'm A Woman Doesn't Mean I'm The Same As Every Other Female Singer.

I'm More Interested In A Feminism That Ends Discrimination For All People. It's Not Just About A Woman Becoming The Ceo Of A Company Or Something. It's Connected To Racism And Classism And Gender Issues That Go Beyond The Binary.

Most Of My Records Are Never Going To Be Commercial Successes, And I Don't Expect That. It's Just All A Learning Process To Me. If Something Appears As A Failure, Fine. If There's Success, Fine. I Like The Record, And My Friends Like The Record, And That's Kind Of All I Can Really Care About.

Since I Loved Underground Music, I Tried To Carve A Space For Feminism Within It. Those Were My Hopes.

One Of The Reasons I Went Back To Music Even Though I Was Extremely Ill Was Because I Started To Forget Who I Was Aside From Being Sick. And When I'm Performing, Or Even Lecturing, It's Like I'm Myself Again, And That Was A Really Amazing Discovery - That, All Of A Sudden, I Have A Get-out-of-jail-free Card.