If You Have A Therapist Who Agrees

Olympia Was A Town Crawling With Music. I Was New To The Whole Punk Scene. The Culture Shock Continued; Olympia Had Bagels! We Didn't Have Bagels In Arkansas. You Could Order Vegetarian Food All Over Town! It Was So Crazy To Me - A Place With So Many Vegetarians, The Restaurants Made Special Dishes For Them?

I Don't Feel Famous And I Didn't Want My Autobiography To Be Like A Paris Hilton Story.

Thanks To Capitalism, The Importance Placed On Beauty Has Never Been So Manipulated. We Are The Guinea Pigs Force-fed Ads That Tell Us How Pathetic We Are: That We Will Never Be Loved, Happy Or Valuable Unless We Have The Body, The Face, The Hair, Even The Personality That Will Apparently Be Ours, If Only We Buy Their Products.

We Had So Many Milestones In America. We Were On Our Way To Universal Healthcare. We Had Gay Marriage. We Were Talking About Gender Fluidity And Trans Issues Openly And Discussing Them With Respect. It Was Almost To The Point Where Educating People About Transgender Rights Wasn't An Issue. We Were Including Trans People As A Normal Part Of Our Conversations Instead Of Seeing Their Presence As This Shocking Thing To The System. We Forgot That Those Things Can Be Taken Away From You Because There Are People In The World That, For Whatever F - King Reason, Can't Live And Let Live.

I Always Was Really Confident About Myself, About My Voice, Myself As A Person, My Body, All Of Those Things, But As A Songwriter - I Just Didn't Identify As A Songwriter At All.