Musician

People barely have anything to say in 140 characters. The last thing we need is a bunch of discursive rambling on Twitter.

My own relationship to food was healthy. I was lean and athletic with a high metabolism. I could eat half a pizza with a side of breadsticks and wash it down with soda. I never dieted or denied myself food.

Kissing is kind of scary.

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 really like sardonicism and wit. I love the writing of Joy Williams and Lorrie Moore. I like Tina Fey, Amy Schumer.

I think that art, and making music or comedy, is a way of positing yourself on the map and then trying to find other people out there with you.

Meals and eating and that sort of ritual of gathering at a table is such a part of childhood, and that was such a strange moment. It made me nervous to watch my mom cook for us and then not engage in the act of eating with us.

There's something that feels very timeless about fandom.

I've never understood people who play up the artifice of music.

I've been trying to immerse myself in the narratives of other people. I try to not isolate myself as much. It is really hard. People that are sensitive, you just feel too porous sometimes. There's this inertia that sets in, and it's hard to get out of bed. I think knowing that other people go through it is really reassuring.

For a while I had somebody that came to clean my house that turned out to be in a band that I really loved.

I went to a liberal arts college wherein grading was qualitative and we had to write our own evaluations.