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When I First Started Out I Actually Was Trying To Use Music To Promote Feminist Ideas And At Certain Points, Anti-violence Against Women And Girls-type Causes I Was Involved In.

I Stood In The Bay Window At Our House And I Sang Away In A Manger. It Was My First Time On Stage, But There Was Nobody Watching. I Just Remember It Was So Natural And It Was Such A Secret - Like Masturbating. I Felt Like I Had To Wait Until Everybody Was Gone. So I Guess Six Years Old Would Be My Most Important Age, 'cause In That Moment, I Just Knew What I Wanted To Do.

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.

As I've Gotten Older, I've Realized That Things Are A Lot More Permeable. It's Not So Black And White: Not Every Journalist Is A Jerk.

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.