I was pretty much into punk rock and that's all I cared about. I was into Green Day and the Ramones. I wanted to get a guitar so I could play punk songs because this kid taught me power chords at summer camp.

I like going to bed early and getting up early, but that doesn't happen on tour.

I think I'm gradually becoming a more politically aware person.

Just being a normal person and having a social life involves a lot of dishonesty for me.

A lot of bands break through with their third record: the White Stripes, the Clash, the Replacements.

I love obsessive fandom because I'm an obsessive fan who flips out over music.

I love it when people write rapturously about music they love.

I'm a big fan of Louis CK - I think he's a master of standup.

Desperate times make for desperate songs.

I wear what I want to wear and appear on stage as myself.

Part of what you hear when somebody says something awful to you is like, 'They're right, I look ridiculous, why am I dressed this way, I should go home and change.' For me that voice is always in my head, right around the corner.

I was thinking very carefully about going into education, becoming a teacher, maybe becoming a rabbi.

I think of myself as a tomgirl. A boy who's girly in every presentational aspect. And I play guitar and write good songs.

I wrote 'My Teeth Hurt' in April 2018 when my teeth hurt and I didn't have dental insurance.

The first music I loved on my own was punk.

I'm just grateful to people who are willing to admit how bad things feel for them.

We spent a lot of time making 'Transangelic Exodus' and toward the end of it, my ability and my love for music - that is, just garage music, direct and immediate - started to feel neglected.

I always felt like I had a punk album waiting to be made.

I'm going to make the music I wish someone else was making.

I'm in this effort to unify my life and to live day to day in a disciplined way, to be real at all times, not just in front of people, or not just in a synagogue.

Judaism is a way of thinking, more than anything else, that I think is entirely distinct, and the more you know of it, the more you can enter into that kind of thinking.

My favourite artists are the ones who are human, and you know they're not in a failure-proof environment.

Being in a rock n' roll group, or being a musician, it is in conflict in some serious cultural ways with being an observant Jew, but in a conceptual way, for me, they go together real well.

I'm interested in God. I'm not interested in religion for religion's sake.