"I believe in that step of not just making revolutionary music but making it in a way that challenges the system, Especially in this day and age when the tools for producing and distributing are more and more accessible to the average Joe and Josephine. The possibility of emancipation and control and independence is so much greater now."
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Guitarists from the United States20th-century poets from the United StatesWomen guitaristsFeminists from the United StatesBassists
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Rolling Stone interview (1995)
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