I Got Kind Of Tired Of Playing,

I Wrote So Much About Fandom And Participation For Npr That I Eventually Realized My Most Fertile Way Of Participating In Music Is To Actually Play It, At Least In A Way That Made The Most Sense To Me.

You Do Have To Live Through Things, And To Live Through Things Is To Observe Want, And To Observe Lacking. Even If The Hunger Is A Curiosity.

I Think When You're Writing From Your Own Life, It's Hard Because You Realize That People Have Their Own Assessment Of How They Look, And They Don't Know How You Will Describe Them.

"we Can't Name It, But We Can Sing Along." That Is My Ultimate Relationship To Any Art Form, But Especially Music.

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.