We are seeing a lot of these [sites] popping up. As public consciousness goes up, it becomes more difficult to operate under the radar.

We're required to continue collecting that tax from our customers until the IRS tells us to stop doing that.

When you say it's a federal excise tax, you know, most of the time, oh it's the federal excise tax. And that's just understood that it's a tax you pay. Where exactly those funds go is something that's a mystery to all of us.

We shut them down and another one pops up.

Some of the lyrics come from stream-of-consciousness, and I used to spend a long time honing them into a narrative afterwards. Now I'm fine with keeping things more mysterious. I just let the words and images come to me, rather than direct them. You just have to try not to get lazy, and avoid clichés. There are a lot of things you have to throw away.

She is a poet of great social consciousness and social awareness. She confronts things that are troubling in our society.