Life as it should be: all friends, all art, all music, all love, all the time.
Art is food for the soul, and an artistic climate is a healthy climate because it breeds empathy.
In both the art and the business worlds, the difference between the amateurs and the professionals is simple: The professionals know they're winging it. The amateurs pretend they're not.
On many days, harder than the act of making the art itself is the act of sharing it and living in a culture that you know is built to tear you down.
There's a huge cloud of shame around art and business being seen as bedfellows.
It would nice to live in a world where art can just be art!
I've watched so many women, from Kathleen Hanna all the way up to Taylor Swift, whether they're pop artists or rock stars or fine artists or writers, it is the subhistory of female artists that if you're going to make art, you're also going to have a full-time job of defending your right to make art.
I think performance art comes from a simple place of wanting to express things beyond just sound.
I never wanted to grow a thicker skin; I felt a real sense of pride in my thin skin, and in a weird way, I still do, because it's my thin skin that allows me to empathize with other people. It's the thing that allows me to create vulnerable art. It's the thing that allows me to create other feelings and make songs that actually grab people and touch people. I feel like I've spent my life fighting that thicker skin because I don't want to become an embittered asshole.
I had very literal parents and I wanted to survive with metaphor and art, and there was a real sense of shame around it.
