“ Sometimes the beauty is easy. Sometimes you don't have to try at all. Sometimes you can hear the wind blow in a handshake. Sometimes there's poetry written right on the bathroom wall. ”

“ I basically get stereotyped a lot in terms of being a girl and writing 'chick' music for teenage girls or something. I think, if anything, the press kind of, because of my gender and my age, tends to kind of relegate my work to this sort of special-interest group. It's part of the cultural dynamic, I guess. ”

“ Men make angry music and it's called rock-and-roll women include anger in their vocabulary and suddenly they're angry and militant. ”

“ When I first started writing songs and being very explicit, it was hard, but one of the main things people respond to in my writing is that 'just say it' attitude of my songs. There really is nothing personal or private it's all universal, if you can just find the courage to be open about your life. ”

“ I'd rather be able to face myself in the bathroom mirror than be rich and famous. ”

“ A lot of women these days, a lot of young women don't want to call themselves feminists. You have this cheap, hideous 'girl power' sort of fad, which I think is pretty benign at best, but at worst, I think it's a way of taking the politics out of feminism and making it some kind of fashion. ”

“ Art is why I get up in the morning but my definition ends there. You know I don't think its fair that I'm living for something I can't even define. ”

“ Why do you think I write these feminist songs, to try and teach myself to respect myself. You know, it's not because I'm a hero. ”

“ Patriarchy is like the elephant in the room that we don't talk about, but how could it not affect the planet radically when it's the superstructure of human society. ”

“ I've been a long time coming, and I'll be a long time gone. You've got your whole life to do something, and that's not very long. ”