Everyone's so interior now, they're not really looking around them. They're on their phones.

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?

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

Jesus was never indifferent to the issues of the people in His day.

She was chaos and beauty intertwined. A tornado of roses from divine.

I simply believe that some part of the human Self or Soul is not subject to the laws of space and time.

Forever doesn't exist because it hasn't started yet.

The Trouble with liberals is twofold: They have a horrible blind spot with respect to moral principles and they have an abysmal understanding of economic principles.

When I was a kid in Adelaide, I dreamed of becoming No. 1 in the world, winning a grand slam and the Davis Cup for Australia.

An ideal culture is one that makes a place for every human gift

Political freedom means the absence of coercion of a man by his fellow men.

The ball goes down the keeper's throat where it hits him on the knees to say the least.

Sometimes people ask, 'Are hockey fights real?' I say, 'If they weren't, I'd get in more of them.