There's the added element of adrenaline if you're performing. You're aware of spatial relationships and the music.

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.

Because you live to love and love to live/ And because of what your heardrum will give/ Now we might love to live and live to love.

Between the desireAnd the spasm, Between the potencyAnd the existence, Between the essenceAnd the descent, Falls the Shadow.

This woman’s size protected herfrom the hurts of the worldbut it also imprisoned her soul. As the merry-go-round revolved, she ate another French fry, as a silent scream frozen on her face.

What small potatoes we all are, compared with what we might be!

To just read the Bible, attend church, and avoid “big” sins-is this passionate, wholehearted love for God?

The poet is stepping out of the airplane.

I do forgive people when they get it right, even people who in the past I thought were unforgivable.

Never get involved with someone who wants to change you

I never intended to be a politician or office-seeker.

In order to get what you want, you must act.