I was surrounded by nature and trying to come to terms with this blissful nature versus the inhumane mentality of war. People were being deluded by someone using the word peace

Each member does whatever they want with the song and it totally changes it from whatever idea I hear around it. It turns it into a Sonic Youth song and completely away from it being a solo song.

Lyric writing is an interesting process in Sonic Youth. There's three people writing now, and we've all had a lot of interest and involvement with expression through words

Buddhism has become a socially recognized religious philosophy for Americans, whereas it used to be considered an exotic religion.

I certainly don't sit around in the morning making pancakes listening to Whitehouse or anything.

I never go back and listen to the recorded document. The thrill comes when the balance can be attained. Everyone in the room can have a shared, communal rock experience.

Rock'n'roll saved my soul.

Every now and again, the alternative culture is cherished by the mainstream for what it is, rather than how it should be, like the mainstream popular music.

I have to reign myself in a lot.

Hits are for squares.

I never do releases to try and make or break some contemporary band.

Discovering life in oneself is to become what you have the potential to become

Communications tools don't get socially interesting until they get technologically boring.

Delay always breeds danger and to protract a great design is often to ruin it.

Chance, my dear, is the sovereign deity in child-bearing.

Inspiration and motivation may come from others, but true inspiration comes from within.

Poetry, I have discovered, is always unexpected and always as faithful and honest as dreams.

True genius doesn't fulfill expectations, it shatters them.

Names are not important. It's what lies inside of you that matters.

There seems to be something wrong with our bloody ships today.

I love the Asian countries.