If I Had To Choose Between The

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.

I Was Never Trying To Be The Voice For Anybody Else. I Was Just Trying To Sing About What I Was Going Through, And Was Singing About Those Things Specifically Because I Knew There Was An Audience Not Being Served.

I Feel Like That When I Read Certain Feminist Blogs Or Feminist Magazines, Where It's Not Even So Much We've Gone Backwards, It's That I'm Bored. Or It's Like, Oh Wow, Kids Today Are Still Dealing With The Same Exact Issues.

It Was One Of The First Things I Did On My Own; I Worked At Mcdonald's, Raised The Money And Did It. I'm Really, Really Passionate About Pro-choice, Because I Wouldn't Be Here Talking To You Right Now If I'd Had A Kid At 15.

I'm So Language-based And I'm So About Communicating, And My Art Has Always Been Very Audience-based, And Very About Being Functional And Communicating Something, And About Feeling Like I Have To Be Heard.