I would love to make a bunch of country demos and write country songs for really great country singers. Kathleen Hanna More Quotes by Kathleen Hanna More Quotes From Kathleen Hanna I don't like every other musician's work. The same way that filmmakers don't like every other filmmakers' work. Just because I'm a feminist doesn't mean I'm gonna say that I like every other woman's work, or that I appreciate another statement that another woman publicly made. Kathleen Hanna appreciate feminist mean I am such a bossy producer and such a control freak that there's a part of me that really longs to be bossed around. Kathleen Hanna really-long freak producers It takes your mind off things when there's a cat in your lip and he's purring while you're petting him. Kathleen Hanna lips cat mind As I've gotten older, I've realized that things are a lot more permeable. It's not so black and white: not every journalist is a jerk. Kathleen Hanna journalist jerk black-and-white A lot of artists are just really stupid about money, and it's really hard to find somebody who kind of thinks of shuffling money around and doing business as an art. Kathleen Hanna stupid art thinking It's so important for people in political groups to learn the difference between productive criticism and not. When it's about something you can change, it's productive. But if it's just like "You are an evil person", you can't change that. There's no way around that. Kathleen Hanna differences evil people See who else is interested and join other people's projects that have already started that you like. You don't always have to reinvent the wheel and start your own thing. Kathleen Hanna wheels like-you people My advice for someone who wants to be creative but has a chronic illness is to think of something that you can do as opposed to all the things you can't do - and do that. It's just like gardening: What can grow in this soil? There's some soil you can grow roses in and some soil you can only grow cactuses in, so if you can only grow cactuses, become the best cactus grower in the whole world. Taking care of yourself is the most important thing. Find something that makes you happy. Don't get down on yourself that you can't run a 4K or dance all night long at a fun club. Give yourself a break. Kathleen Hanna running fun night I don't consider myself a divining rod whom God is speaking through or any kind of crap like that. Kathleen Hanna crap kind It's really cool that Miley Cyrus said she's the biggest feminist ever. I was like, 'That's the sound of 200,000 eight-year-olds Googling the word "feminist! Kathleen Hanna eight feminist years Whatever your personality was before, an illness makes it that plus a thousand. I'm a very binary person in a bad way where it's like everything is either totally great or totally awful. I don't understand grey area that well, and I've been working at that. Kathleen Hanna binary illness personality One of the reasons I went back to music even though I was extremely ill was because I started to forget who I was aside from being sick. And when I'm performing, or even lecturing, it's like I'm myself again, and that was a really amazing discovery - that, all of a sudden, I have a get-out-of-jail-free card. Kathleen Hanna sick reason forget My illness has changed me - I've always thought "life is short and I wanna make as much of it as I can," but I really don't have time to mess around. This has really been a wake-up call in terms of what's important, and I'm working hard to figure that out. I need to get better at not doing favors for people all the time. It's hard because there's so many people who have helped me get to the point where I'm in a band that people wanna come see, or where people pay money to see me lecture. Kathleen Hanna life-is-short get-better people I never thought that someone would be teaching one of my fanzines. I never thought I'd be off to lecture at a college. It's still shocking to me. Kathleen Hanna college teaching would-be The idea that musicians/artists have a responsibility to be community leaders or "role models" is problematic to me because I really believe that some of the most exciting art is not community-minded at least in any obvious or direct way, which is not to say that it is not ethical or consciousness-changing. Kathleen Hanna responsibility believe art I really love that I'm giving myself the opportunity finally to not have the pressure of every single song you do having to be "political" or whatever. I'm just making what I wanna make. Kathleen Hanna opportunity song giving I always wanted to play music, but my family was more interested in handing me paints and markers. Art was always my favorite subject in school, and I can remember staying up all night drawing as a small child. My expression via art was extremely strong as I grew and hasn't stopped. Kathleen Hanna strong children art I stood in the bay window at our house and I sang Away In A Manger. It was my first time on stage, but there was nobody watching. I just remember it was so natural and it was such a secret - like masturbating. I felt like I had to wait until everybody was gone. So I guess six years old would be my most important age, 'cause in that moment, I just knew what I wanted to do. Kathleen Hanna waiting house years I wouldn't want to play Miss Hannigan. I'm not a villain. She's mean to little children! I can't do that. That would disrupt my brand. Kathleen Hanna play mean children Every band I've been in, it's just become my total life. I feel like a child star - I've missed out on so much. Kathleen Hanna band stars children
