"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."

"My songs are just little letters to me."

"We have a complete void of progressive politics in this country right now. The will of the people goes ignored and unrealized. I'm searching for the people that can enter the political system, a strong third party. We need to consolidate."

"We have to be able to criticise what we love, to say what we have to say 'cause if your not trying to make something better, than as far as I can tell, you are just in the way."

"I'm singing now because my tear ducts are too tired, and my brain is disconnected but my heart is wired."

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

"I could wake up screaming sometimes, but I don't. I could step off the end of this pier, but I've got shit to do."

"I was just eating bread and water, thinking nothing ever changes. And I was shocked to see the mistakes of each generation will just fade like a radio station if you drive out of range."

"Art is why I get up in the morning, but my definition ends there. And it doesn't seem fair that I'm living for something I can't even define."

"Seems like everyone's an actor or an actor's best friend, I wonder what was wrong to begin with that they should all have to pretend."

"You've been juggling two women like a stupid circus clown, telling us both we are "the one". and maybe you can keep me from ever being happy, but you're not gonna stop me from having fun.

"I'm gonna take all my friends and I'm going to move to Canada and we're going to die of old age."

"'Cause the marriage business is still run by men like every business."

"they were digging a new foundation in manhattan and they discovered a slave cemetery there. may their souls rest easy now that lynching is frowned upon and we've moved onto the electric chair."

"Sometimes it seems like love is just a fancy word for compromise"

When I say you sucked my brain out the English translation is I am in love with you."

"People talk about my image like I come in two dimensions, like lipstick is a sign of my declining mind, like what I happen to be wearing the day that someone takes a picture is my new statement for all of womankind."

"Love is a piano dropped from a four story window, you were at the wrong place at the wrong time."

"i am writing graffiti on your body. i am drawing the story of how hard we tried. i am watching your chest rise and fall like the tides of my life, and the rest of it all. and your bones have been my bedframe, and your flesh has been my pillow."

"Some days the line I walk turns out to be straight, other days the line tends to deviate."

"Everyone needs to see the prisoner they need to make it even easier they see me as a symbol, and not a human being that way they can kill me say it's not murder, it's a metaphor."

"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 and there's no excuse So just suck up and be nice"

"The windows of my soul are made of one-way glass don't bother looking into my eyes if there's something you want to know, just ask"

"Cuz when I look down, I just miss all the good stuff, and when I look up, I just trip over things." As Is "I want a monument to the friendship that we never had erected."

"Just give up and admit you're an asshole You would be in some good company And I think you'd find that your friends would forgive you Or maybe I am just speaking for me"

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

"I got friends all over this country I got friends in other countries too I got friends I haven't met yet I got friends I never knew"

"I'm an idealistic girl and I wouldn't work for you no matter what you paid and I may not be able to change the whole fucking world"

"She says 'honey you are safe here, this is a girl girl thing."

"I am a work in progress dressed in the fabric of a world unfolding offering me intricate patterns of questions rhythms that never come clean and strengths that you still haven't seen."

"If you don't ask the right questions, every answer seems wrong"

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

"Just let me go, we have to be able to criticize what we love, to say what we have to say 'cause if you're not trying to make something better, then as far as I can tell, you are just in the way."

"I just sing what I wish I could say and hope somewhere some woman hears my music and it helps her through her day."