I just happened to start playing music for the conceptual ideas.

There's only so many small shows you can do. A lot of the smaller things are more side project things. Not everything is appropriate for Sonic Youth to do.

Women make natural anarchists and revolutionaries, because they've always been second-class citizens, kinda having had to claw their way up.

When Punk Rock happened, it created an opening in the culture... it made it ok to think you could play music, even though you had no musical training.

If you don't fit into a certain type, there's a lot of strength in just being who you are.

Someone once wrote that in between the lives we lead and the lives we fantasize about living is the place in our heads where most of us actually live.

People pay to see others believe in themselves.

Rap music is really good when you're traumatized.

Women are natural anarchists...

I mean, who made up all the rules in the culture? Men-white male corporate society. So why wouldnt a woman want to rebel against that?

At the end of the day, women are expected to hold up the world, not annihilate it.

Your voice could go to where your feet could not go.

When listeners become leaders, the world changes.

He was interested in the shadow herself - how her mind worked, what motivated her, her essence, how she came to be. It was a fascinating phenomenon.

Krishna was conceived in the womb of Devaki mysteriously as the sun setting in the West imparts his rays to the rising moon in the East.

To say a sheep has 5 legs doesn't make it so.

Forget about good. Good is a known quantity. Good is what we all agree on. As long as you stick to good, you'll never have real growth.

We must stop being polite and behaved and find new inventive tactics to shift the paradigm. We are the majority.

Where the unveiled glories of the Deity shall beat full upon us, and we for ever sun ourseves in the smiles of God.

I don't think anywhere is there a symbiotic relationship between caddie and player like there is in golf.

Islam is not a set of rules. It’s a way of seeing life and the world.