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

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

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.

The band has a liberal philosophy - that's sort of a given.

…there is not a day of my life that I am not critiquing myself to see if my politics are borne out in the way that I live and the way that I talk and present myself.

If you have a deep desire to move forward, a way is being prepared for you.

What's the use of worrying? It never was worth while so Pack up your troubles in your old kit-bag And smile smile smile.

Abstracts are real and time is a lie, it cannot be measured when one moment can expand to hold everything.

The certainty of our salvation rests on the character of God.

If you had to choose only two qualities to get you through times of change, the first should be a sense of self-worth and the second a sense of humor.

My whole mood or sense can change by virtue of the music that I'm listening to. It really does affect me on a visceral and emotional level.

I think I came back from America a funnier and nicer person than I went.

I may be forty, but every morning when I get up, I feel like a twenty-year-old. Unfortunately, there's never one around.

Life can very genuinely and realistically pile things on. It doesn't dole out the heartache and pain, or joy, perfectly.