American - Musician | November 12, 1969 -
Singing is my life, and I have to do it, or I'm going to go totally bananas.
Kathleen Hanna
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Since I loved underground music, I tried to carve a space for feminism within it. Those were my hopes.
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When I watch myself on camera, in any capacity - being interviewed, performing, 20 years ago or yesterday - there's a part of me that really doesn't grasp that it's me.
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I'm in a really lucky position where people will be interested in whatever I do, but what I do is sing.
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Defining art is huge; I feel like it's such a subjective thing. It's more like what's not art. You know what I mean? I think there can be an art in the way people live their lives, and art can be a gift someone gives to somebody.
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I think music can definitely be art; I also think music can be crap and not be art.
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Teachers are performers, just like I am.
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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 thrilling than doing it yourself.
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I'm not that interested in female superheroes.
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I would love to make a bunch of country demos and write country songs for really great country singers.
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I have chronic - well, I like to call it late-stage Lyme disease and not chronic, because I like to think someday I'll be all the way cured. It took me a really long time to get diagnosed, and I was misdiagnosed for a long, long time. I was very ill during the end of Le Tigre, which was kind of why that ended, amongst other things.
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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 beginning of Le Tigre. I felt people were like, 'You're not angry enough anymore.' People still ask me that. 'Are you still angry?' I'm like, 'About what? About that question? Yes.'
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