"Solange is very, very chill. She's just so real, so human. Karen O, who I toured with last fall, is this badass persona on stage—and she is a badass—but in...
"We bring all of our gear—we don’t rent anything on tour. No matter where it is, we have to come up with how to ship all the gear economically and not to lo...
"What's more condescending and corny than someone telling you how much more money they have than you and telling you basically, 'I don't care about poor people,...
"You could write a song about some kind of emotional problem you are having, but it would not be a good song, in my eyes, until it went through a period of sens...
"For me, if the process of creating music is honest, I feel like I don’t have complete control over how I want the songs to come out."–Taylor Rice (Local Na...
"One of the great things about the Internet is that people are excited about music and wanna hear a random album from a band somewhere in Romania or something, ...
"Regarding race or gender or sexuality, one of the great things about art and music is that they can provide people with very little else in common with a simil...
"I'd start to see bands prioritize things wrong in my mind, they weren't prioritizing the momentness of a show or the physical experience of a show. Instead, th...
"I spread the message of hope and of unity. That's what gets me up in the morning. I can tell you what is wrong, but I can't tell you how to fix it. I'm a rapti...
"It's a really cool time for artists who want to strive for a little more depth in what they want to say to come forward. We live in a very fast world right now...
"Osun is a Yoruba river deity. She is basically the goddess of love and female energy, female sensuality. So we came up with her name because we felt her energy...
"From the beginning, I didn't want to take lessons or anything. I was interested in alternate tunings. I loved Sonic Youth, and I knew they used alternate turni...
"For me, forgiveness and compassion are always linked: how do we hold people accountable for wrongdoing and yet at the same time remain in touch with their huma...
"Women can also be creative in total isolation. I know excellent women artists who do original work without any response to speak of. Maybe they are used to lac...
"Ailing there are so numerous novels, but I think no rhetoric, no deliberate modification, there is no graph twists and turns, but that word softly, between th...
"In fiction, plenty do the job of conveying information, rousing suspense, painting characters, enabling them to speak. But only certain sentences breathe and s...
"What's funny about the slacker thing, people project an image of what they think a musician is: young, slack, unemployed - like a really romantic idea of a poe...
“Being an intellectual creates a lot of questions and no answers. You can fill your life up with ideas and still go home lonely. All you really have that real...
"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 ...
"A lot of women these days, a lot of young women don't want to call themselves feminists. You have this cheap, hideous 'girl power' sort of fad, which I think i...
“To call woman the weaker sex is a libel; it is man's injustice to woman. If by strength is meant brute strength, then, indeed, is woman less brute than man. ...
