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American - Musician Born: September 23, 1970

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.

Beauty You Poetry Wind

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.

Society Elephant Talk Like

My idea of feminism is self-determination, and it's very open-ended: every woman has the right to become herself, and do whatever she needs to do.

Woman She Whatever Right

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

Myself Mirror Face Rich

Either you are a feminist or you are a sexist/misogynist. There is no box marked 'other.'

You Box Either Feminist

I know there is strength in the differences between us. I know there is comfort where we overlap.

Strength Know Differences Comfort

Love is a piano dropped from a fourth story window, and you were in the wrong place at the wrong time.

Love Time You Love Is

I have something to prove, as long as I know there's something that needs improvement, and you know that everytime I move, I make a woman's movement.

You Woman Long Improvement

Maybe you don't like your job, maybe you didn't get enough sleep, well nobody likes their job, nobody got enough sleep. Maybe you just had the worst day of your life, but you know, there's no escape, there's no excuse, so just suck up and be nice.

Life Day You Sleep

Taking me seriously is a big mistake. I certainly wouldn't.

Me Mistake Seriously Big

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I've been trying to learn how to not be so conflicted about things like my own anger. I've always had a place in my music for my anger as a way of compensating for not having a mechanism to express it in my everyday life. So I've been trying to be more true to myself, and that helps me to chill out a little bit. But politically, uh-uh. No.

Life Myself Music Me

They taught me different was wrong.

Me Wrong Different Taught

Patriarchy is a fundamental imbalance underlying society And it's one we rarely address because it's so universal. But as I get older, I see that peace is a product of balance.

Peace Society Balance See

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.

Work Music Age Girl

I do believe that music has an intense power to connect us together, to inspire us to become ourselves.

Music Power Together Believe

You can't start with imbalance and end with peace, be that in your own body, in an ecosystem or between a government and its people. What we need to strive for is not perfection, but balance.

Peace You People Government

There isn't much I have to say, that I wouldn't rather just shut up and do.

Say Shut Up Just Up

If I'm gonna go down I'm gonna do it with style. You won't hear me surrender, you won't hear me confess cause you've left me with nothing but I have worked with less.

Me You Style Go

Art may imitate life, but life imitates TV.

Life Art May Imitate

Pop stardom is not very compelling. I'm much more interested in a relationship between performer and audience that is of equals. I came up through folk music, and there's no pomp and circumstance to the performance. There's no, like, 'I'll be the rock star, you be the adulating fan.'

Music Relationship You Performance

I was attracted to a lot of different art forms - dancing, painting. But there's something about music that people hold so close. It's such a powerful art form, and that's why I live for it.

Music Art People Painting

Some people wear their heart up on their sleeve. I wear mine underneath my right pant leg, strapped to my boot.

Heart People Some People Wear

I don't care if they eat me alive, I've got better things to do then survive.

Me Care Better Alive

People need something or someone to fasten themselves to in order to reassure themselves that they are real.

People Someone Real Need

Strangers are exciting, their mystery never ends. But, there's nothing like looking at your own history in the faces of your friends.

History Looking Friends Strangers

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.

Best Women Politics You

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