I'm, like, forever a teenage girl in a way. No matter how hard I try not to be, that's just what I am. All I care about is boys and shopping.

I find it sad that people think it's a political, gender-bending thing, because, really, I'm just singing about guys. There's a million guys singing about girls, and no one makes a big deal of it.

Women that hate other women - that's the worst.

My aim was to dismantle this false history that men created punk, because they didn't. And they were certainly never the best at it.

The first record I bought with my own money was Rio.

To achieve policy stability and certainty, we need to establish a meaningful price on carbon and cut the billions of dollars spent each year on fossil-fuel subsidies, along with well-structured financial tools and rules.

In these difficult financial times for so many of our districts, as our local leaders strive to balance their budgets by cutting services, we would be irresponsible not to invest in the arts.

The principle of building an economy without foreign monopoly capital has become a principle which, for us, is no longer subject to amendment.