I'm really nostalgic for Malibu area because I've spent so much time there. People don't think of California as having a history.

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.

The music is not in the notes, but in the silence between.

Let's go invent tomorrow instead of worrying about what happened yesterday.

It's never too late to come home, " he said, and pulled me gently, insistently toward him."All you have to do...is stop moving away.

I had a great shoe contract and glove contract with a company who paid me a lot of money never to be seen using their stuff.

Is it O.K. that I speak in English? The only thing I know in Dutch is how to order pot.

You can't dig a different hole by digging the same one deeper.

Enlightenment is the ability to freely transact within the ten thousand states of mind without a continuous self or awareness

I don't consider myself a fashion designer.

That becomes the revolution, to be idealistic enough that you think you can change the world, and what you find is you can't change anything but yourself.