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

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?

I always wanted to rebel.

Primarily motivated by a desire to keep abortion 'safe, legal and rare, ' female liberals in the media have carte blanche to do and say anything.

All reading is good reading. And all reading of Jane Austen and Charles Dickens is sublime reading.

Let's take care of the necessities first: give people jobs, and find a way to get us out of poverty

Sometimes it is easier to see the light when you stand partly in the darkness.

Falling in love is like religious conversion. It goes on for a long time below the threshold before it reaches consciousness.

The real is only one realization of the possible.

We tire of those pleasures we take, but never of those we give.

When I came into the job, funding for the humanities at the federal level was being drastically cut. This was the high tide of the new Republican Congress.

Politics are not my concern.... They impressed me as a dog's life without a dog's decencies.

No. What part of ‘no charity’ have you missed?” – Cherise ‘The part that said he couldn’t eat.’ – Nick