We're playing all these weird festivals, usually outdoors.

Each member does whatever they want with the song and it totally changes it from whatever idea I hear around it. It turns it into a Sonic Youth song and completely away from it being a solo song.

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

Buddhism has become a socially recognized religious philosophy for Americans, whereas it used to be considered an exotic religion.

I certainly don't sit around in the morning making pancakes listening to Whitehouse or anything.

I never go back and listen to the recorded document. The thrill comes when the balance can be attained. Everyone in the room can have a shared, communal rock experience.

Rock'n'roll saved my soul.

Every now and again, the alternative culture is cherished by the mainstream for what it is, rather than how it should be, like the mainstream popular music.

I have to reign myself in a lot.

Hits are for squares.

I never do releases to try and make or break some contemporary band.

Silence is only awkward if one cannot feel a connection with the other.

Life's lessons are designed that we would rise from 'The Fall' (or our failures) and be restored to our Divine nature.

The best hijab is in the eyes of the beholder.

Here, there's more of a movement, it doesn't mean we're winning any more, but we're at least fighting.

Spirituality has played an amazing part. Its been paramount in my life.

Do not be silent; there is no limit to the power that may be released through you.

It is not every calamity that is a curse, and early adversity is often a blessing. Surmounted difficulties not only teach, but hearten us in our future struggles.

Wish I could take your tears and replace them with laughter.

The most efficient way to produce anything is to bring together under one management as many as possible of the activities needed to turn out the product.

When television came along, I'd already done more than 10 years of radio work and I thought everyone would want me. I sat around waiting for the phone to ring - and it didn't.