I try not to think too much about what the audience is thinking and what they think I should do.

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.

The task of the right eye is to peer into the telescope, while the left eye peers into the microscope.

He is a true casualty of battle. There's not a physical scar, but look at the man's heart, and his head, and there are scars galore.

Pull up the shades so I can see New York. I don't want to go home in the dark.

When you realize you've made a mistake, take immediate steps to correct it.

Meditation will change your life for the better, enhance your physical health, improve your sleep, and help you achieve your goals, both material and spiritual.

Fatherhood, to me, isn't something you do for awards or acclaim. It's a privilege and a huge responsibility

When life does not find a singer to sing her heart she produces a philosopher to speak her mind.

The greatest tragedy in life is not death; the greatest tragedy takes place when our talents and capabilities are underutilized and allowed to rust while we are living.

It's hard to remember that life is a miracle. We're just living it and we forget that.

There is a pleasure that is born of pain.