If you don't fit into a certain type, there's a lot of strength in just being who you are.

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.

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.

I always wanted to rebel.

People generally believe that which they wish to believe and disbelieve that which is unpleasant.

Bravery is about overcoming fear, not about not having it.

Apart from photography and music videos, I also do graphic design.

Crave for a thing, you will get it. Renounce the craving, the object will follow you by itself.

I just can't tell you what fun I've had being a member of the world's second oldest profession.

I can discover no political evil in suffering bullies, sharpers, and rakes, to rid the world of each other by a method of their own; where the law hath not been able to find an expedient.

Jehovah Witnesses don't believe in hell and neither do most Christians

A comfortable and regulated life is needed for fastest pace of evolution.

I've taken my cue from people here and from viewers, especially survivors-who said, 'When it's time to literally flip your wig, you'll know.'

Let necessity, and not your will, slay the enemy who fights against you.