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.

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.

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.

I always wanted to rebel.

religion is no longer the opium of the people but the vitamin pills of the feeble.

Love protects and preserves the soul, spirit and the body.

No one can succeed in breaking you down mentally, if you are always feeding some uplifting and hopeful words to your mind.

So you would kill Old Ireland?” Anna Livia said. “You would kill yourself, for without Old Ireland, you wouldn’t be.

Only after realising that routine immunisations were dangerous did I achieve a substantial drop in infant death rates.

If the news is that important, it will find me.

I started writing one afternoon when I was twenty, and ever since then I have written every day. At first I had to force myself. Then it became part of my identity, and I did it without thinking.

The human animal cannot be trusted for anything good except en masse. The combined thought and action of the whole people of any race, creed or nationality, will always point in the right direction.

However they may have felt when they left they were now committed, they had passed the point of no return.

It’s sad to see them staring wistfully through the window when the door isn’t locked.