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?

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...

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

I always wanted to rebel.

Dialogue in fiction should be reserved for the culminating moments and regarded as the spray into which the great wave of narrative breaks in curving toward the watcher on the shore.

The scientistic faith in a science that will one day not only fulfill, but eliminate, personal self-conception through objectifying self-description is not science, but bad philosophy.

Boys have said in the past that I live my life like a movie. I love all things romantic, like kissing in the rain.

Some of us will probably become famous. It will be an ironic fame fashioned largely by those who have never seen our work.

The poor need help today, not next week.

It was one of those moments when you feel the future so much that it humbles the present.

Dreadful experiences raise the question whether he who experiences them, is not something dreadful also.

Significance is sweet.

Who I am really keeps surprising me.

In an artist's life, death is perhaps not the most difficult thing.