Rap music is really good when you're traumatized.

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.

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.

A Set Back is only a Set Up for a Come Up!

each age stands on the shoulders of the one that has gone before, and out of the revolt of the old is fashioned the new.

Men are wonderful. I adore them. They always give you the benefit of the doubt.

No one goes into standup to make money. The frustration and rejection are just too much.

America has abandoned the strong woman of spirituality and is shacking up with the harlot of materialism.

It is possible to move through the drama of our lives without believing so earnestly in the character that we play.

Never believe what you cannot doubt.

I can always see light in any situation. It's just the way I'm made.

To steal ideas from one person is plagiarism; to steal from many is research.

Jesus took the tree of death so you could have the tree of life.