KAREN O: I always felt like because I was a woman I just had a completely different perspective. I felt like my brain literally worked differently than everyone around me, which was all men. And so therefore I was not beholden to the rules of the game, which is a big thing in the rock world. It’s very dutiful. There’s a legacy that is laid out. There’s a cannon of rock, and a lot of men worship that and kneel at the alter of that. I didn’t have to play by those rules. I mean, I felt super, super isolated and super lonely because I could never really fully relate to my male bandmates and peers.
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