I'm All About Being Prudent. And I've

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.

Living In Portland, Which Is A Predominantly White City, The Privilege And The Luxury To Be Able To Obsess Over A Certain Kind Of Minutia, That I Think, If You Did Not Have That Privilege, Would Never Be Bothersome. When People Are Worried About Whether "local" Means 100 Miles, Or 50 Miles, Or 10 Miles From A Grocery Store, I Just Think, "wow. What A Privilege It Is To Have That As A Major Concern In Your Life." As Opposed To, "can We Afford Food Tonight?" Sometimes I'm Just Shocked At What Becomes Concerning In These Kind Of Communities.

I Think It's Very Disheartening And Undermining To Focus On Nostalgia Or Youthful Sentimentality As The Lens Through Which You View Art And Culture, Because Then You Feel Like Everything Good Already Happened. I Really Just Try To Be In The Present With Music And Just Find The Things That Are Invigorating And Make Me Feel Happy To Be Alive Right Now.

I Will Say, As A Woman, When You Put A Mustache On, You Find Out A Lot Of Things About Yourself.

I'm Really Drawn To The Uncompromising Realness Of Natural Process: It's Unadorned. It's Not Very Pretty.