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.

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

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.

I seriously hate pop music and all things super-commercial.

I see a lot of connections between folk and punk music just because they're both subcorporate music - I mean, traditionally.