There are so many great artists that are doing interesting things, that I don't want to focus on boring people. Kathleen Hanna More Quotes by Kathleen Hanna More Quotes From Kathleen Hanna It feels amazing and beautiful that music can have such an importance on the way that people form social groups. Music can change people. People can change the world. Kathleen Hanna beautiful people world I think that's such an important message, especially for younger women, to know, 'I don't have to come out of the womb painting like Frida Kahlo. My very first thing that I make isn't going to be an around-the-world sensation.' You have to paint a hundred really ugly, barfy, diarrhea paintings before you come up with that one where you start to really get into your groove. Kathleen Hanna important world thinking 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. I never got to play Grand Theft Auto and get stoned every day. I figure at 45 I should probably start doing that. Kathleen Hanna children For whatever reason I just remembered being six years old and my parents leaving the house and trusting me to be alone. I had an older sister, I think she was supposed to babysit me but she immediately ran across the street to her friend's house. Kathleen Hanna house years thinking What (some) bands do is go, 'It's not important that I'm a girl, it's just important that I want to rock.' And that's cool. But that's more of an assimilationist thing. It's like they just want to be allowed to join the world as it is; whereas I'm more into revolution and radicalism and changing the whole structure. What I'm into is making the world different for me to live in. Kathleen Hanna rocks girl important I like loud snare, and I like really treble-y guitars, and that's just never going to change. Kathleen Hanna snares loud guitar Just because I'm a woman doesn't mean I'm the same as every other female singer. Kathleen Hanna female singers mean If I were a supervillain, I would end capitalism, racism, sexism, homophobia, transphobia... but I guess that's a little too obvious and not villain-y enough. Because that's actually being a superhero. I would break down poverty with my machete; I would end world hunger. Kathleen Hanna superhero racism world I'm a very binary person in a bad way where it's like everything is either totally great or totally awful. Kathleen Hanna binary awful way My mom and I had secret from my dad that we didn't think we were stupid, that we didn't think we needed feminism to be explained to us. Kathleen Hanna dad mom stupid Sometimes, being a feminist artist, there are times where I'm in a position where I just want to feel like I'm saying all the right things politically, or I feel like I have to mention my own project over other people's projects. Kathleen Hanna feminist artist people If you really hate me, you should at least have the courtesy to take out a piece of paper and write it down and mail it to me. If you're a worthy nemesis, I want to see your handwriting. I want to see your name and your address, and if you don't have the guts to give me those, then you're not a worthy nemesis. Kathleen Hanna hate names writing The only thing I collect is art. I collect it because I like looking at it. A lot of it is really personal stuff that my friends have made, paintings that my husband's mother made, and things that I bought. I buy abstract art on eBay, and I buy some outsider art on eBay, or what is called folk art, I buy a lot of. I have a lot of professional art work as well as more stuff my friends' kids make. To have a wall of art to look at, I feel really surrounded by love, because so much of the work is related to my friendships. Kathleen Hanna wall mother art I didn't go to high school, I didn't go to college, I didn't have women's studies. All of my feminist ideals and education have been built around art and my friends and community. And so it's still growing. Kathleen Hanna college art school People can be in a prison of their own mind. [There are] people who don't have their hearts open to other people's ideas, and can't listen to other people's ideas without feeling like they're being slapped in the face. Those people are more in a prison. Kathleen Hanna heart people ideas I'm really going off of watching John Waters speak one time and I remember he just kind of talked and it was totally interesting. I wanted to hear about his life and how he got started and when did he think he made it, stupid stuff like that. And what his relationship with the mainstream is because he's so far out there, but then he became part of the mainstream in this weird way. He was really funny, though. Yeah, I have to work on my jokes. Kathleen Hanna stupid water thinking Internalized sexism that makes us feel like we can't show ourselves not being perfect. Kathleen Hanna sexism shows perfect My mom wasn't, like, she was reading all these historical romance novels the majority of the time. She read a feminist book and then my dad would sit down and explain it to her like she was an idiot. Kathleen Hanna dad mom book I was lucky enough to go to college for four years. At what was supposedly a hippie school with no tests and no grades, blah blah blah, I wasn't learning that. I was taking photography classes. That stuff just wasn't talked about. It was like, "Does this picture have the right about of grey in it?" It wasn't even an art school. It was a state-run school. Kathleen Hanna photography running art I know what a good question would be for an actor. What's your least favorite thing that you've ever heard an actor say about acting? Or about being in a movie? 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