Kathleen Hanna Quotes

I spoke to a million in one service, in Korea, in Seoul. And that was the largest audience I ever have had.

My preference is 3,000, maybe 5,000-seat venues.

We can go to Australia and play to 30-to-40,000. We can do that in certain places in the States, but not everywhere.

I'm not Kathy Griffin. I can't do 1200 seat venues. I need 300, 400 something like that.

I mean, I would always like to play bigger places and play for more people.

I only do about 25 shows a year and I do not really do tours.

I want to know that I am putting 30,000 individuals in seats in arenas. That's my goal.

We'd love to be playing to five or six thousand.

My booking agent, of course, here and overseas, their tendency is to want to build on a certain kind of measurable success, and I was thinking yesterday, what I'd like to do is maybe start to compile a list of the best 200 to 500 capacity rooms around the world and just start going to them again and again and again.

I tour a lot, sometimes like a hundred shows a year.

The allure becomes, "Can I make these rooms bigger?" Can I fill these 1,500-seat rooms? Then the allure is, how much, if we're being honest, how much can I squeeze out of it financially?

When you're walking onto a bus and trying to get there before the person in front of you, that's a different level of competition than playing in front of 80,000 people.

Everybody wants a big crowd. You get amazed sometimes with certain things that millions of people are watching and you go, "Serious?! Really?!" And then, there are things that you really, really enjoy and not a lot of people are watching. It's very, very hard to predict how it works.

One: demonstrations always crash. And two: the probability of them crashing goes up exponentially with the number of people watching.

From bell to bell, from when my entrance plays and I step through that curtain, people have to wonder what's going on inside that guy's head.

I really don't like showing people how I play things; it's a little embarrassing because it always looks so simple to me.

People are coming to shows on the strength of one song. I guess that's the way it goes.

I have no sympathy for the people who went to Charlie Sheen's show and were disappointed. That didn't seem very organized! That guy's all over the map!

I've always been playing with other people, and that's how I learned. I got a kit of drums I couldn't play, but I also knew a guitarist and a friend of mine played bass and could teach us bass, and we just played. And I learned.

God made certain people to play football. He was one of them.

I would do nightclubs and concerts - particularly concerts, which is mostly what I did - and only people who already agreed with me would show up. People weren't going to come and inadvertently turn on their television set and find this offensive stuff coming out.

People always say you can't win if you don't play

This is politics. People in power never have to play by the same rules.

The old forms of entertainment are not extinct. Live performances are the pinnacle. If you can something that people want to see live, then you have a great career.

When St Genesius, the patron saint of actors, refused to act in a Roman play that ridiculed Christianity, the legend goes, the producers executed him. It reminds some people of Broadway today.