Sadly, as a songwriter you sooner or later finish developing your musical understanding.

We sometimes feel like hamsters on a wheel, covering the same musical ground we did 20 or more years ago.

Generally there are always a few things that get left off for some reason or other, although the criteria for inclusion vary from project to project.

I always have problems with seeing how our new stuff relates to our old stuff - I'm better at seeing long lines in other people's music than in my own.

I really liked Beyond The Valley Of The Dolls and a couple of others, but with these kinds of movies the best part is the 'talking about it over a beer afterwards' bit - and once is kind of enough.

When you've been at it for as long as we have, you go through fallow periods and blooming ones, and you know when you're on a roll and you learn how to keep it rolling for as long as you can.

I think this insatiable need to get to know new music is a big part of why it has lasted so long.

We've gotten better at shooting down routine material or stuff we feel like we've done better in the past. Getting different people in the band for periods also keeps it from going stale.

Your passion is such that you pursue it for free because experiencing it is its own reward.

He who is full of joy is full of love.

From Satan or from God, what matter? Angel or Siren, What matter, if you make - fairy with velvet eyes, Rhythm, perfume, light, o my only queen - The universe less hideous, each moment less strained?

People like to think the younger generation's job is to steer the world to hell. But it's never true, is it? They're hopeful and good - and that's how it should be.

I remember a time when everybody I loved hated me because I hated them.

Well, if you're true to yourself you're going to be true to everyone else.

The war on drugs is really the war on people who buy drugs from people who don't lobby the government.

Lyric writing is an interesting process in Sonic Youth. There's three people writing now, and we've all had a lot of interest and involvement with expression through words

A little scorn is alluring.

Come let us be friends for once. Let us make life easy on us. Let us be loved ones and lovers. The earth shall be left to no one.