I just think that playing bass, like punk rock bass with a pick, wasn't meant to be done for 25 years.

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.

Politicians know it's a game of power, every politician at every level, even in the common of mortals.

My biggest problem with modernity may lie in the growing separation of the ethical and the legal

People who honestly mean to be true really contradict themselves much more rarely than those who try to be 'consistent'.

Soon after a hard decision something inevitably occurs to cast doubt. Holding steady against that doubt usually proves the decision.

If you don't have an assistant, you are one!

You marry somebody; you love everything about them. You grow to learn about them. You never learn everything.

Banality is a symptom of non-communication. Men hide behind their cliches.

To carry adequate life insurance is a moral obligation incumbent upon the great majority of citizens.

Denial ain't just a river in Egypt.

And I think my sexuality was heavily repressed by the church, by the, you know, the design of the mortal sins.