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Most Of My Records Are Never Going To Be Commercial Successes, And I Don't Expect That. It's Just All A Learning Process To Me. If Something Appears As A Failure, Fine. If There's Success, Fine. I Like The Record, And My Friends Like The Record, And That's Kind Of All I Can Really Care About.

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.

When I Get Stressed Out My De-stress Default Is - Not Cat Videos - But I Just Watch His Surrogates. They're So Entertaining. It's Like Escapees From The Nordstrom Cosmetics Counter.

So Many Women Have Experienced Horrific Forms Of Male Violence Throughout Their Lives, And Why Isn't There A Song About How You Get Depressed Because Of It?

I Know I Love Sexy Surf Guitars, I Know I Love Loud Snare. I Love Really Simple Repeating Bass Lines, And I Love Weird Mad Scientist Keyboard Sounds.