Kathleen Hanna Quotes
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Popularity is totally overrated.
— Kathleen Hanna
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
If people are like, 'Oh, you're an icon,' then whatever. But who thinks of themselves like that? It's not like I have posters of myself on the wall.
— Kathleen Hanna
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
People have always had these weird things about how you have to be really good looking to be a singer.
— Kathleen Hanna
If I had to choose between the band or the friendships, I'd choose the friendships at this point.
— Kathleen Hanna
I can't constantly be trying to write the unwritten song, the song that the 15-year-old girl needs. I need to write the song that I need.
— Kathleen Hanna
I would much rather be the obnoxious feminist girl than be complicit in my own dehumanization.
— Kathleen Hanna
I would love to make a bunch of country demos and write country songs for really great country singers.
— Kathleen Hanna
Art revolves around creating something that isn't there.
— Kathleen Hanna
I like loud snare, and I like really treble-y guitars, and that's just never going to change.
— Kathleen Hanna
People are actually having conversations about "Is this sexist?"
— Kathleen Hanna
I don't consider myself a divining rod whom God is speaking through or any kind of crap like that.
— Kathleen Hanna
What usually happens with me [is that] I start with one idea in mind and then something else happens.
— Kathleen Hanna
That's the great thing about music. You can find some '60s pop record and feel completely invigorated by it, even though it's so old.
— Kathleen Hanna
Teachers are performers, just like I am.
— Kathleen Hanna
I'm living in a world where there are LGBTQ straight alliances at high schools. I feel pretty psyched on that.
— Kathleen Hanna
I realized that calling yourself a feminist or not calling yourself a feminist, just by being in a band of all girls, it's all you talk about.
— Kathleen Hanna
Gay marriage! That's a huge change and a huge win-win for feminism.
— Kathleen Hanna
I really like to talk about my work in a way that is complicated.
— Kathleen Hanna
I'm not that interested in female superheroes.
— Kathleen Hanna
I wanted to say to myself as much as anyone else that we made art.
— Kathleen Hanna
Feminism is something you do. It's a verb. It's what you are. It's an activity; it's something you're actively engaged in.
— Kathleen Hanna
Jason Mraz, and the new James Blunt song is the worst thing that has ever been created on the face of the earth.
— Kathleen Hanna
I felt it was really, really important, not just in the vein of feminist erasure or whatever but also just as an artist that I honored my work.
— Kathleen Hanna
I'm in a really lucky position where people will be interested in whatever I do, but what I do is sing.
— Kathleen Hanna
I won't stop talking. I am a girl you have no control over. There is not a gag big enough to handle this mouth.
— Kathleen Hanna
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
I feel like there's this weird thing that as a feminist band you get put in this role as ambassadors.
— Kathleen Hanna
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
Since I loved underground music, I tried to carve a space for feminism within it. Those were my hopes.
— Kathleen Hanna
It's unexpected for women's issues to be brought up in places other than women's centers on college campuses or crisis places.
— Kathleen Hanna
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
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
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
I know I love sexy surf guitars, I know I love loud snare. I love really simple repeating bass lines, and I love weird mad scientist keyboard sounds.
— Kathleen Hanna
There are so many great artists that are doing interesting things, that I don't want to focus on boring people.
— Kathleen Hanna
I wanna be a legend; I wanna be a cult hero. I do!
— Kathleen Hanna
There are people who view their feminism in different ways. I used to beat myself up if I didn't react to things like I was supposed to.
— Kathleen Hanna
I didn't even know what the word lesbian meant until I was called one ... and then I had to look it up in the dictionary.
— Kathleen Hanna
The cool thing about the Internet is that it's allowing women more access to their own history.
— Kathleen Hanna
I have no clue. I just know I would want to play the least amount of shows that the most people would be able to come to.
— Kathleen Hanna
I feel like what I'm best at is being a musician and a performer. I want to use that to help people who are good at starting nonprofits.
— Kathleen Hanna
I realized that I really enjoy writing comedy, and how important comedy is when you feel like total crap.
— Kathleen Hanna
I just write what I want to write.
— Kathleen Hanna
What happens tomorrow is going to happen tomorrow.
— Kathleen Hanna
When you're a musician and you go out onstage, and you're someone who loves attention, you are going to become a role model to some extent.
— Kathleen Hanna
I'm a very binary person in a bad way where it's like everything is either totally great or totally awful.
— Kathleen Hanna
I've always been like, "Look, you're going to die and it's not going to matter after you die that you got out onstage and bombed."
— Kathleen Hanna
I think music can definitely be art; I also think music can be crap and not be art.
— Kathleen Hanna
I think as a culture, we don't like conflict or looking at icky stuff - especially in our downtime.
— Kathleen Hanna
I think my biggest fear is dying. Although sometimes my biggest fear is not dying. But yeah, I think health stuff for me is more what I'm afraid of.
— Kathleen Hanna
Think of something that you can do as opposed to all the things you can't do - and do that.
— Kathleen Hanna
I don't think I've ever had a woman yell that at me, but women have yelled mean things at me as well.
— Kathleen Hanna
Internalized sexism that makes us feel like we can't show ourselves not being perfect.
— Kathleen Hanna
It takes falling down a bunch of times before you start running.
— Kathleen Hanna