Why Wear Pants When You Can Wear

The Thing About Being On The Majors, From The Beginning, Going Into This, I Was Like, "i'm Not Going To Be Treated Like A Factory," Because That's Never The Way It Was Done Before. You're Talking About A Major Label, We're Talking About Serious Business; You're Not An Artist Anymore, You're A Business, You Have To Work In Terms Of Product, You Have To Release A Product, And I Don't Really Think That Way At All.

I Worshipped Ethel Merman And I Worshipped Ethel Merman A Lot. It's Incredible - Ethel Merman Was A Conventional Singer. Her Naming Her Child Ethel Merman, Jr., Was, To Me, One Of The Coolest Feminist Things.

For Years Now I Have Run A Kitchen-sink Punk Salon In My House, Called Salon Du Gay. In The Early Days, People Would Pay For A Riot Grrrl Bob Or A Passable Bleach Job With A Mixtape, $3 Or A Selection Of Baked Goods - Whichever They Could Afford. More Recently Though, With Gossip Doing Well, I've Performed These Punk Hair Transformations For Free.

I Don't Have A Good Attention Span And Can't Spend Long In Record Stores Or Video Shops Or Games Emporiums Without Getting Grumpy.

My Life Hasn't Been Conventional And It Hasn't Been Linear. I've Had To Make It Up As I've Gone Along, Which Has Taught Me A Lot. If You Don't Accept The Obvious Options That Are Laid Out For You, It's Up To You To Work Out Where You're Going And To Create Your Own Specific Rules And Goals.