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

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

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.

Art revolves around creating something that isn't there.

So many women have experienced horrific forms of male violence throughout their lives, and why isn't there a song about how you get depressed because of it?

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

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

Sexism and racism and homophobia and classism are so naturalized. All these stereotypes make people think it's just normal that straight white men are getting all the breaks.

I feel so lucky that I met the love of my life. You know somebody's in it to win it when...you're having a seizure and they're holding you.

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

As we witness the death of departed souls, other people will observe our departure from the world.

Nothing is so burdensome as a secret.

My coach told me I had to expect, you know, some long rallies and stuff. So, you know, I was ready for this.

I don't believe any experiment until it is confirmed by theory. I find this is a witty inversion of "conventional" wisdom.

Do what you know is right, but try not to get caught.

Trying to compromise EXCELLENCE, is like trying to let a little bit of air out of a balloon with a hat pin.

His soul swooned slowly as he heard the snow falling faintly through the universe and faintly falling, like the descent of their last end, upon all the living and the dead.

I do hope I play out the contradictions that I feel, all the anxieties and dilemmas. If they're there in the work, then that's brilliant.

What I want any genre to do, what I want any work of art to do, is to illuminate the human condition.

I don't like finished things, because finished is over, dead.