With Sleater-Kinney, we did a lot of improvisation in our live shows, and even our process of songwriting involved bringing in disparate parts and putting them together to form something cohesive.

I love coffee. I love a midday espresso on set, just for the energy.

I think that half of us feel fraudulent in our lives anyway. There's that strange disconnect of not really knowing what we're doing sometimes, or why it matters. It's our existential crisis.

I think hip-hop does a very good job of infusing comedy and humor and wit into music, a lot more than other genres.

I will say, as a woman, when you put a mustache on, you find out a lot of things about yourself.

I really don't know what to do when my life is not chaotic.

You can never underestimate that moment of somebody explaining your life to you, something you thought was inexplicable, through music. That was the way out of loneliness.

I need a template of a template

As a kid, before I got into music, I did all the drama classes, went to theater camp in the summers, so it wasn't totally a foreign world.

Rihanna has guts and she always seems to be singing from someplace honest, dark and fierce.

I am a horrible visual artist. I can't fix a car, sew, knit, cook, etc. Statistically, there is more I don't do than do.

Calling bullshit on something thats exactly what you want to hear is certainly among life's bigger challenges

If God be near a church, it must pray. And if he be not there, one of the first tokens of his absence will be a slothfulness in prayer.

We are all the authors of our own fates

I always tell beginning runners: Train your brain first. It's much more important than your heart or legs.

I like characters who have strong facades and then have secrets. They have cracks.

I'm very picky when it comes to men. I come across a man who I'm really attracted to about once every five years.

I'm not the perfect bride after all.

As a leader you can get sidetracked but you have to complete your mission

A new broom can sweep the floor, but an old broom knows where the dirt is.

Women are extremely important shapers of my own life.