I feel like what I'm best at is being a musician and a performer. I want to use that to help people… — Kathleen Hanna Copy Share Image
Since I loved underground music, I tried to carve a space for feminism within it. Those were my hopes. — Kathleen Hanna Copy Share Image
When you're a musician and you go out onstage, and you're someone who loves attention, you are going to become a role… — Kathleen Hanna Copy Share Image
That's the great thing about music. You can find some '60s pop record and feel completely invigorated by it, even though it's… — Kathleen Hanna Copy Share Image
I think music can definitely be art; I also think music can be crap and not be art. — Kathleen Hanna Copy Share Image
It's not like somewhere along the way I decided to be a total formalist in terms of music and to not care… — Kathleen Hanna Copy Share Image
There's still a lot of misogynist pop music out there, and I think that hearing something that's so explicitly feminist and so… — Kathleen Hanna Copy Share Image
Johnny Rotten isn't punk. Maybe that's punk to somebody, but these people are participating and challenging the corporations that are telling us… — Kathleen Hanna Copy Share Image
I really love that I'm giving myself the opportunity finally to not have the pressure of every single song you do having… — Kathleen Hanna Copy Share Image
I made the decision that my contribution needed to be more musical than political. My music was enough, politically. Art matters. Art… — Kathleen Hanna Copy Share Image
One of the reasons I went back to music even though I was extremely ill was because I started to forget who… — Kathleen Hanna Copy Share Image
I kind of decided that doing music is enough because I'm already running a couple small businesses. I'm a part of Bikini… — Kathleen Hanna Copy Share Image
The idea that musicians/artists have a responsibility to be community leaders or "role models" is problematic to me because I really believe… — Kathleen Hanna Copy Share Image
I'm totally into Taylor Swift. I think she has super-clever lyrics, and I love that she writes her own music. Some of… — Kathleen Hanna Copy Share Image
It feels amazing and beautiful that music can have such an importance on the way that people form social groups. Music can… — Kathleen Hanna Copy Share Image
I'm not a goddess, for crying out loud. I'm a regular person who took feminism - which I have a deep connection… — Kathleen Hanna Copy Share Image
It's so crazy because kids that wrote to me when they were 14 years old are still in my life. A lot… — Kathleen Hanna Copy Share Image
I get emails every day from people saying, "I never heard your music. I don't know anything about you. I just happened… — Kathleen Hanna Copy Share Image
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… — Kathleen Hanna Copy Share Image
I felt like going out on the road and mixing it with music - which is something young people are always really… — Kathleen Hanna Copy Share Image
Music is an extremely powerful art medium that can really affect people's emotions. It is amazing to realize how much communities can… — Kathleen Hanna Copy Share Image
When I first started out I actually was trying to use music to promote feminist ideas and at certain points, anti-violence against… — Kathleen Hanna Copy Share Image
Find something you really love doing and mix it with something you really care about. That's why I've had such longevity as… — Kathleen Hanna Copy Share Image
I always wanted to play music, but my family was more interested in handing me paints and markers. Art was always my… — Kathleen Hanna Copy Share Image
Later as things progressed and I saw the direct correlation between being able to keep making records and having people know about… — Kathleen Hanna Copy Share Image
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… — Kathleen Hanna Copy Share Image
There's still a lot of misogynist pop music out there, and I think that hearing something that's so explicitly feminist and so angry -… — Kathleen Hanna Copy Share
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… — Kathleen Hanna Copy Share
In terms of men being feminist allies, it's just important to speak from your own place. I'd love to hear men singing about masculinity… — Kathleen Hanna Copy Share
I got hit up for a tampon commercial and so I asked [JD and Jo] if they had anything. Jo sent that over and… — Kathleen Hanna Copy Share
Clearly, gay marriage is on the top of the agenda right now. It's pretty amazing, considering where stuff was at when I was in… — Kathleen Hanna Copy Share
When you're the person who's kind of in charge of everything a lot of the time, it's sometimes nice to get bossed around. It's… — Kathleen Hanna Copy Share
I've always talked a lot on stage - I really wanted to communicate my ideas and when you're playing at a lot of shitty… — Kathleen Hanna Copy Share
I belive power can be used for good, I don't think every form of power is absolute evil. I wish I would have stepped… — Kathleen Hanna Copy Share
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… — Kathleen Hanna Copy Share
I think that the Internet is really cool because a lot of young feminists don't feel like they have to reinvent the wheel. — Kathleen Hanna Copy Share
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 Copy Share
If I can't sing them myself, there's nothing better than writing songs for other people and watching them be performed. It's kind of more… — Kathleen Hanna Copy Share
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.… — Kathleen Hanna Copy Share
You feel like people are looking at you like, 'I wanted the old Kathleen. Where's the old Kathleen?' I felt that way in the… — Kathleen Hanna Copy Share
I don't want to waste the precious moments I have, and I've felt that way since I was 17. I have to take risks… — Kathleen Hanna Copy Share
