Unless you're singing something that's kind of in rhythm with the bass, the melodies, it's just difficult.

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.

Eli was right. The measure of success isn't what you gain. It's what you pay to get it.

No star is lost once we have seen, We always may be what we might have been.

If you don't fail, you're not even trying.

The art of giving is perfected through anonymity.

Never build your emotional life on the weaknesses of others.

I think George Washington owned guns. I've never seen any contradiction with that.

Theatre is alive and it is now, and then it's gone.

I was the only one at stage school who wasn't white.

How rude for the created to tell the Creator "I wasn't worth it. You didn't do a good job when you made me. I wasn't worth dying for." You don't get a choice! He's the one who gets to decide.

There are other jobs I do besides rap. I was considering going back to school so there have been a few things on my plate that I thought about doing during my time off.