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American - Musician Born: November 12, 1969

In 1985, I was living with my sister in Virginia, and since I was still in high school, I worked at McDonald's to save money to get an abortion. It sounds really terrible, but it was the best decision I ever made. It was the first time I took responsibility for my actions. I messed up, had sex without contraception, and got pregnant at 15.

Best Time Money Decision

There are so many great artists that are doing interesting things, that I don't want to focus on boring people.

People Focus Great Boring

Not to rag on myself, but when people say, 'What does it feel like to be an icon?' I'm like, 'My dog does not think I'm an icon, my cat does not think I am an icon, my cousin does not think I am an icon.' I have a really lovely group of friends, and I just don't think about it.

Myself I Am Dog People

Certain people are like 'Oh, here come the Feminazis!' You end up acting 10 times nicer than you even need to be, to be the opposite of the stereotype like 'You're the man haters!' We're always bending over backwards being extra nice. And I don't know if being nice is my legacy.

Man You People Haters

It's really funny - when I'm depressed or I'm having a hard time, I'll write really fun stuff. And then when I'm really happy, I write really depressing stuff.

Funny Time Happy Fun

I wanna be a legend; I wanna be a cult hero. I do!

Hero Legend Wanna Cult

I'm really annoyed by the wave of country music that's just a list of stuff. It almost sounds like L.A. people writing country music, because it's just a list of stuff: 'My pickup truck and my cowboy boots and my Levi's jeans and my girlfriend with the short shorts.' It's so boring!

Music People Country Boring

You don't have to have magic unicorn powers. You work at it, and you get better. It's like anything: You sit there and do it every day, and eventually you get good at it.

Work Good Day You

It's now taken for granted that women are in bands and you can say feminist things in your songs. But back in the early '90s, there was a lot of violence at Bikini Kill shows that people don't realize happened.

Women You People Violence

Art revolves around creating something that isn't there.

Art Something Creating Revolves

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I'm just working and having a good time and seeing what develops, which is so awesome, because you don't know what's going to happen, and I'm letting myself do that a lot more than I ever have.

Myself Good Time You

I was in a band in the '90s called Bikini Kill, and we were so freaked out about documentation then, and there was the whole thing, not just about the male gaze, but that people were going to misrepresent you... a kind fear of the mainstream that a lot of us had.

Fear You People Band

People have always had these weird things about how you have to be really good looking to be a singer.

Good You People Looking

I think as a culture, we don't like conflict or looking at icky stuff - especially in our downtime.

Culture Looking Think Conflict

I was making stickers for guys' bands. I was in the front row photographing bands, booking bands, doing all of the kind of backstage stuff, and I didn't even think for a second I could do it, and then I saw Babes in Toyland, and all that changed.

Think Doing Changed Kind

There's just as many different kinds of feminism as there are women in the world.

Women World Different Just

In terms of men being feminist allies, it's just important to speak from your own place. I'd love to hear men singing about masculinity and the damage it does to them.

Love Men Singing Speak

I can't constantly be trying to write the unwritten song, the song that the 15-year-old girl needs. I need to write the song that I need.

Girl Song Trying Need

I wanted to make something that I wanted to hear that I wasn't hearing.

Something Hear Make Hearing

You learn that the only way to get rock-star power as a girl is to be a groupie and bare your breasts and get chosen for the night. We learn that the only way to get anywhere is through men. And it's a lie.

Men Girl You Power

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.

Work Important Artist Whatever

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?

Women You Song Violence

Women didn't want to be on the stage with other women because they didn't want their bodies to be compared. They didn't want another female act opening for them because of this weird competitive and tokenistic attitude.

Attitude Women Weird Opening

I wanted to say to myself as much as anyone else that we made art.

Myself Art Say Made

I really like to talk about my work in a way that is complicated.

Work Way Complicated Talk

I just write what I want to write.

Want Just Write

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