Unwanted Labeling Quotes

Casting is a convoluted kind of trip. No one likes to be typed - even if you're a cab driver, or whatever you do.

There's definitely been a focus on the literary aspects of my music, and I always get a little cringey because I don't feel like I'm particularly literary. There's a sort of academic label that's put on me that seems inaccurate.

When I was at college, my nickname was Keds because I wore Keds. I guess it wasn't really a nickname, because nicknames are usually given to you by people who are your friends and who know you. But I didn't know the people who called me Keds. I think that they didn't like me because I didn't want to join a sorority.

I hate being called an 'icon.' I just don't like it. That's all there is to it.

I don't love being thought of as Neil's barnacle. It's a strange shadow to follow.

The only thing that ever really bothers me is that a lot of people think I'm that girl who hates your boyfriend. I'm really not that girl. Some of my friends' boyfriends are my best friends.

Being dubbed as a hunk sort of annoys me. It gives me a yucky feeling.

I used to go to some Harvard parties with my athlete friends, and they would introduce me as 'Winona, the Indian activist.' It made me uncomfortable. I felt like a novelty.

I resist and resent the idea of California as a metaphor. It's something thrust upon us, usually by people in the East.