I tend to want to listen to melancholy music, but sometimes if you're feeling too sad, you can't.

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.

Turbulence does not shake a tree with strong roots.

That must be what power does to a man: erases what he knows and makes him remember only what services him at the moment.

Life has been kind to me. I am happy with the love and appreciation that I have been getting throughout my career. I feel blessed.

We're teaching our children how to live. We need to start teaching them how to die.

If you live cautiously, your friends will call you wise. You just won't move many mountains

I like the Polanski stuff more than anything else. Rosemary's Baby is still one of my favorite movies of all time. The idea of her being impregnated with the devil is just so frightening.

I will not allow it to be more man's nature than woman's to be inconstant.

The future of mankind, for the socialist, is simple: pull down the existing order and allow the future to emerge.

If you look at the statistics, people spend most of their time in the kitchen. Aside from the backyard, it's one of my favorite places to renovate.

Years place at last a venerable crown upon a head.