When I Was A Kid Ellen Degeneres

Someone Told Me Once That Lucinda Williams Takes Six Years Between Albums, And That's What Stuck To Me; It's Like, You Really Are A Factory. You Don't Do Things To Make Them, On Your Own Time.

I Never Went To College And I Was Raised In Arkansas So There Wasn't A Lot Of Academic Language Being Thrown Around My House. We Weren't Idiots, But I Didn't Have That Access To Academic Feminism. I Had To Realize, On My Own, That Feminism Is Not Just About How Far Ahead You Can Get In A Job And It Isn't About Not Wearing Makeup. It Isn't About Not Watching Your Waistline. I Had To Recreate The World Entirely.

Portland Is A Place Where You Can Find A Community As A Feminist, A Vegan Or A Fat Activist. Artists, Musicians, Knitters, And Filmmakers Can All Meet Like-minded Souls. It's Proved The Perfect Place For Me And All My Punk Friends.

Growing Up As A Chubby Kid With A Ton Of Imaginary Friends And A Cyndi Lauper Obsession, I Learned About Rejection Early On And Was Constantly Trying To Avoid It.

You Don't Pigeonhole Yourself, People Pigeonhole You. If The World Is Not At A Place Yet Where It Can Just Be Like, "this Music Is Gay And It's Music," Then It's Not My Fault That It Gets Pigeonholed, It's Not The People In The Band's Fault, It's Because People Won't Just Let Music Be Music, People Who Need To Put A Name On Something Or To Critique Something.