Latest Kathleen Hanna Quotes from Interviews

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• 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

  Source: pitchfork.com

• 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, People, Get Better

  Source: pitchfork.com

• 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, Forget, Reason

  Source: pitchfork.com

• 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

  Personality, Illness, Binary

  Source: pitchfork.com

• I'm not sure Riot Grrrl would have been as big a deal if the Internet had existed back then. Because there's so much stuff on the Internet. People could have been like, oh, whatever, I'm going to go look at pictures of Barbie vaginas, you know what I mean? There's so many different things on the Internet, you read one article and then you read something linked off that article and you go down the rabbit hole.

  Kathleen Hanna

  Mean, People, Barbie

  Source: www.elle.com

• I feel like that when I read certain feminist blogs or feminist magazines, where it's not even so much we've gone backwards, it's that I'm bored. Or it's like, oh wow, kids today are still dealing with the same exact issues.

  Kathleen Hanna

  Kids, Bored, Feminist

  Source: www.elle.com

• I do sometimes think what outfit will make me happy. It's one of those self-care things. If I don't have time to do yoga in the morning, then I have a certain sweater/shirt combination that makes me feel put together.

  Kathleen Hanna

  Morning, Yoga, Thinking

  Source: www.elle.com

• No one's female and male, we all have so many different traits. It's just a lie that these certain traits are male and these certain traits are female.

  Kathleen Hanna

  Lying, Female, Different

  Source: www.elle.com

• 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

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• 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

  Fun, Trying, Care

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• 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

  Political, Feminism, Conviction

  Source: www.artistdirect.com

• 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

  Art, Powerful, People

  Source: www.artistdirect.com

• 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

  Source: www.artistdirect.com

• 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

  Art, Strong, Children

  Source: www.artistdirect.com

• 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

  Art, Believe, Responsibility

  Source: www.artistdirect.com

• 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

  Source: www.artistdirect.com

• 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

  People, Direct

  Source: www.artistdirect.com

• We support Hillary [Clinton]. We're saying that strongly. "I'm with her," I don't think that we can be any less strident. She's the best person for the job.

  Kathleen Hanna

  Jobs, Thinking, Support

  Source: pitchfork.com

• I think this whole Billy Bush thing just pushed women over the edge because it's so visceral.

  Kathleen Hanna

  Thinking, Visceral, Edges

  Source: pitchfork.com

• You have these Stepford wives who are negating other women. But that's their job. [Donald] Trump is the one who is to blame, no matter how much I enjoy watching his surrogates fail massively.

  Kathleen Hanna

  Jobs, Wife, Matter

  Source: pitchfork.com

• I was like, "Oh my god, I hope you're secretly grossed out about everything that [Donald] Trump has been doing." But why is it such a shock to anybody? He's said so many things that show who he is and how ignorant he is from the beginning.

  Kathleen Hanna

  Ignorant, Said, Shock

  Source: pitchfork.com

• When I get stressed out my de-stress default is - not cat videos - but I just watch his surrogates. They're so entertaining. It's like escapees from the Nordstrom cosmetics counter.

  Kathleen Hanna

  Stress, Cat, Video

  Source: pitchfork.com

• I search the phrase "Kellyanne Conway fails," and I'm just watching that Scottie [Nell Hughes] woman smirk all the time.

  Kathleen Hanna

  Smirk, Phrases, Failing

  Source: pitchfork.com

• I almost wish we would've filmed a whole fake tampon commercial around ["I'm With Her"].

  Kathleen Hanna

  Fake, Wish, Tampons

  Source: pitchfork.com

• I got hit up for a tampon commercial and so I asked [JD and Jo] if they had anything. Jo sent that over and I was like, "I love this track. Oh my god. It's so upbeat. It's so positive. It would be so great for a tampon commercial." That commercial never came through, so then I just had it. I was like, "That would be great for a Hillary [Clinton] song." I think it's so funny that it could be a tampon commercial.

  Kathleen Hanna

  Song, Thinking, Track

  Source: pitchfork.com