It's hard to write about a love story with a broken heart.

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.

You can prepare for any challenge, if you daily nurture your mental, emotional, physical and spiritual well-being.

You’ve probably heard it before—if not, you’ve likely experienced it yourself.

A protect-yourself-first-and-foremost idea has subverted the mission of law-enforcement officers, just as it may have degraded the military's.

The deceiver loses when there is correct response from the deceived...

When I'm on stage I feel at home

Free verse'? You may as well call sleeping in a ditch 'free architecture'.

Once we realize the extraordinary power we have to compose our lives, well move from passive, conditioned thinking to being co-creators of our fate.

No matter how much you want to be self-sufficient and alone, there is a natural human impulse to need something more than that.

In love, we worry more about the meaning of silences than the meaning of words.

Challenging behavior is just a signal, the fever, the means by which the kid is communicating that he or she is having difficulty meeting an expectation.