Gay Marriage! That's A Huge Change And

I Do Have Personal Relationships With A Lot Of "fans," In Quotations. I Answer All My Mail, I Get Emails From Fans, And I Try To Answer Them All. That's Important To Me, But Occasionally There's The Thing Where People Basically Ask Me To Write Book Reports For Them, And I Don't Have That Kind Of Time. I Feel Like There's A Certain Sexism Involved, Like Because I'm A Woman I'm Supposed To Constantly Be Like Giving To Everybody.

I'm Sure If You See Things You Wrote When You Were 19, You Cringe. I Saw Stuff Like Angry Poetry That I Wrote When I Was Mad At My Father, Or Photos I Took Where I Smeared Period Blood On Myself. It's Embarrassing.

If People Are Like, 'oh, You're An Icon,' Then Whatever. But Who Thinks Of Themselves Like That? It's Not Like I Have Posters Of Myself On The Wall.

I Belive Power Can Be Used For Good, I Don't Think Every Form Of Power Is Absolute Evil. I Wish I Would Have Stepped In, And I Really Regret It. And That's Why I Really Encourage Young People Who Are Organizing To Speak Up.

I Can't Constantly Be Trying To Write The Unwritten Song, The Song That The 15-year-old Girl Needs. I Need To Write The Song That I Need.