After Sleater-Kinney broke up in 2006 I had very little desire to play music. It took well over three years before picking up a guitar meant anything to me other than an exercise.

I love coffee. I love a midday espresso on set, just for the energy.

I think that half of us feel fraudulent in our lives anyway. There's that strange disconnect of not really knowing what we're doing sometimes, or why it matters. It's our existential crisis.

I think hip-hop does a very good job of infusing comedy and humor and wit into music, a lot more than other genres.

I will say, as a woman, when you put a mustache on, you find out a lot of things about yourself.

I really don't know what to do when my life is not chaotic.

You can never underestimate that moment of somebody explaining your life to you, something you thought was inexplicable, through music. That was the way out of loneliness.

I need a template of a template

As a kid, before I got into music, I did all the drama classes, went to theater camp in the summers, so it wasn't totally a foreign world.

Rihanna has guts and she always seems to be singing from someplace honest, dark and fierce.

I am a horrible visual artist. I can't fix a car, sew, knit, cook, etc. Statistically, there is more I don't do than do.

Kindness is soft and humble like water, but it is the ultimate power of life.

Commander! Sir! Wake up!"Jack surfaced from sleep, wondering who the commander was and wishing he'd respond so he could go back to sleep - until he remembered that he was the commander.

The ocean is a wilderness reaching round the globe, wilder than a Bengal jungle, and fuller of monsters, washing the very wharves of our cities and the gardens of our sea-side residences.

If I'm in a slump, I ask myself for advice.

Never being number one in your list of priorities and not minding at all.

The major key to your better future is you.

Encouragement is oxygen for the soul

I really like my doctors. Some of them I love. I trust them.

I have a huge heart for Haiti and will tell the world how we can help!

There is a necessity for a regulating discipline of exercise that, whilst evoking the human energies, will not suffer them to be wasted.