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 like loud snare, and I like really treble-y guitars, and that's just never going to change.

- Kathleen Hanna

If I had to choose between the band or the friendships, I'd choose the friendships at this point.

- 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

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 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 really like to talk about my work in a way that is complicated.

- 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

Teachers are performers, just like I am.

- Kathleen Hanna

To make riot grrrl move into the future in a new way with a bunch of new names and a bunch of new energy, younger people have to learn about it and apply it to their own lives and own modern conversation. And they are.

- Kathleen Hanna

I was making stickers for guys' bands. I was in the front row photographing bands, booking bands, doing all of the kind of backstage stuff, and I didn't even think for a second I could do it, and then I saw Babes in Toyland, and all that changed.

- Kathleen Hanna

I like art with a sense of humor. I don't have a huge art education to understand everything. I don't think that means that art has to be watered down to the lowest common denominator, though. I don't think you have to go to college to be able appreciate great art, but I like art that doesn't take itself too seriously.

- Kathleen Hanna

I have late-stage Lyme disease. I was misdiagnosed for many, many years and told I had lupus, MS, Crohn's disease, even degenerative arthritis. And finally in 2010, I got the correct diagnosis, because on the last Le Tigre tour, I was having several seizures a day and at times not being able to brush my own teeth.

- Kathleen Hanna

I go to lectures and girls are finding out about Bikini Kill or Le Tigre for the first time and are like,' This is my jam!' It still feels fresh to them.

- Kathleen Hanna

I don't want to be a historical action figure or treated like I'm dead. Like one of those people where they go, 'Oh, isn't she dead?' And then I walk up, and they're like, 'Whoa.' I can't really complain... because I've made myself into a historical action figure. I was like, 'Yeah, come on in!'

- Kathleen Hanna

I always tell girls who say they want to start a band but don't have any talent, 'Well, neither do I.' I mean, I can carry a tune, but anyone who picks up a bass can figure it out. You don't have to have magic unicorn powers.

- Kathleen Hanna

Find something you really love doing and mix it with something you really care about. That's why I've had such longevity as an artist. I really, really care about ending violence against women, and I really, really love playing music. It's super enjoyable!

- Kathleen Hanna

Facing sexism and racism and classism and transphobia, there are ways to choose to act in those situations, and there shouldn't be a prescriptive list of things that you have to say.

- Kathleen Hanna