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Pussy Riot member Maria Alekhina has unfortunately been denied parole and a Russian news outlet’s headline “No Russian Feels Any Respect for Pussy Riot” is less than progressive. How important do you feel it is an artist’s duty to voice forth a statement of equity between such issues and do you feel it’s being used enough in the current year 2013?

(I want to sincerely thank you for your support for social and political justice, specifically the Pussy Riot movement. I’ve been a fan since I was 4 years old. I’m 24 now. “You’ll See” was the first proper single I’d ever owned. Thank you also for the great music & being an inspiration to generations upon generations).

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1. One thing we haven't seen come to life yet is the Year Zero television series. Is this still something you're pushing for?

2. You've gone down so many different avenues as an artist. From cross-genre records with Nine Inch Nails and How to Destroy Angels, scoring records with Atticus Ross, collaborating on visual representations of your work with Rob Sheridan, scoring video games - the list goes on and on. What avenue hasn't yet been explored that you would like to travel down, or, better yet, what is something you've accomplished inside of your career that you would like to further explore and expand upon?

Lastly, thank you for your contributions to the creative world and for being an influence on myself and my music. There's a handful of creative individuals whom I admire and you're among the best of them.

Your chemistry as friends and musicianship as a band shines through your body of released work 100%. Your songs and records are so solid sounding from start to finish..Do your minds always seem to work on the same page? Do heads bump at any time? Basically, can you take us through the process of collaboration when coming together with an idea for something?

Daughter songs pour into the quiet-melancholic & thought provoking well so plentifully and genuinely. Thanks so much for blessing us with your art and thank you for coming around to Pittsburgh last year. I caught the show with my boyfriend and a good friend. It was a very good night. :-)