I'm in a really lucky position where people will be interested in whatever I do, but what I do is sing. Kathleen Hanna More Quotes by Kathleen Hanna More Quotes From Kathleen Hanna It's the idea that we as people can control our own destinies. The government and the corporations, more even than the government, can't dictate what artwork we're supposed to like or what comedy we're supposed to laugh at. Kathleen Hanna destiny government ideas Everybody wasn't always wasted. Why is punk rock about getting wasted? Isn't it punk rock to be sober and change the world? I thought it was about challenging capitalism? How are you going to challenge capitalism if you're wasted? Kathleen Hanna rocks challenges world I didn't even know what the word lesbian meant until I was called one... and then I had to look it up in the dictionary. Kathleen Hanna dictionary knows looks I'm living in a world where there are LGBTQ straight alliances at high schools. I feel pretty psyched on that. Kathleen Hanna alliances world school I have no clue. I just know I would want to play the least amount of shows that the most people would be able to come to. Kathleen Hanna would-be play people Music is an extremely powerful art medium that can really affect people's emotions. It is amazing to realize how much communities can be born from different kinds of music and the people who appreciate them. Kathleen Hanna powerful people art My political views have definitely changed over the years. Maybe a better way of saying it is that I have grown into my convictions; the values and ideas of radical feminism that I started to articulate in my late teens feel more internalized or "second nature." Kathleen Hanna feminism conviction political It's not like somewhere along the way I decided to be a total formalist in terms of music and to not care about content; the content is going to be there whether I try to make it be there or not, and I can have fun and see what happens. Kathleen Hanna care fun trying Later as things progressed and I saw the direct correlation between being able to keep making records and having people know about the music, I became more interested in using popular media as a way to get the word out. Kathleen Hanna direct people When I first started out I actually was trying to use music to promote feminist ideas and at certain points, anti-violence against women and girls-type causes I was involved in. Kathleen Hanna feminist trying Popularity is totally overrated. Kathleen Hanna overrated popularity 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. Kathleen Hanna icons wall thinking I wanted to say to myself as much as anyone else that we made art. Kathleen Hanna made wanted art I wanna be a legend; I wanna be a cult hero. I do! Kathleen Hanna cult legends hero I just write what I want to write. Kathleen Hanna want writing I wanted to make something that I wanted to hear that I wasn't hearing. Kathleen Hanna hearing wanted There are so many great artists that are doing interesting things, that I don't want to focus on boring people. Kathleen Hanna artist people interesting I'm really annoyed by the wave of country music that's just a list of stuff. It almost sounds like L.A. people writing country music, because it's just a list of stuff: 'My pickup truck and my cowboy boots and my Levi's jeans and my girlfriend with the short shorts.' It's so boring! Kathleen Hanna girlfriend writing country Just because you're wearing a goofy hat doesn't make it performance art. Kathleen Hanna goofy hats art My mom was a housewife, and wasn't somebody that people would think of as a feminist, and when Ms. Magazine came out we were incredibly inspired by it. I used to cut pictures out of it and make posters that said, "Girls can do anything", and stuff like that, and my mom was inspired to work at a basement of a church doing anti-domestic violence work. Then she took me to the Soidarity Day thing, and it was the first time I had ever been in a big crowd of women yelling, and it really made me want to do it forever. Kathleen Hanna cutting girl mom
