I think I write songs because of pent-up feelings.

I try to see interviewing as performance art, and just take it as it comes.

I was raised to be a very intelligent housewife.

I'm always champing at the bit to try everything new. It's a terrible quality that I have.

I'm competitive, so I don't like to feel marginalized by the people who sell a lot of records.

I'm known for being annoyingly gender-focused. It's always been my platform.

I'm very cerebral. I like to think things through.

I'm working on a proper rock record, a good, old-school rock record. Finally.

I've lost touch with a lot of that boutique-type music just because of my age, and raising my son and the multiple jobs I have at this point.

It was a source of shame for my family that I was in rock and roll, which is so blue-collar. It just isn't done. And I felt it, too.

It's about the journey and the process. I do things because I love doing them, or trying them.

It's important to have people who will say to you that you're really off the beaten track.

My career has been riddled with controversy, which I never fully understand.

My nails are a disaster. If I play guitar when my nails are long, I just tear them off.

No matter how I do this, my best songs have profanity in them.

Now, in music, it seems more like the popular crowd suppresses anyone who is different.

People hang their hopes on you fitting into their CD collection in way that they have made a space for, but I'm playing a longer game than that.

Picture being forced to talk endlessly about your feelings and listen and care when what you needed was just to get something done.

There's nothing wrong at all with women wanting to be women.

Wearing a veneer of perfection never did me any good.