Women make natural anarchists and revolutionaries, because they've always been second-class citizens, kinda having had to claw their way up.

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.

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.

I always wanted to rebel.

Infinite and finite are both mental constructs.

A street where there are no children playing is a dead street!

The death of a lesser man is the death of all those who believe themselves to be greater.

There is no detective in England equal to a spinster lady of uncertain age with plenty of time on her hands.

Secrecy in suits goes a great way towards success.

Every time I go out in London, I'm not always with my guys. I have three female friends that I'll go out with all the time. I'm the only guy there.

The bottomline in leadership isn't how far we advance ourselves but how far we advance others.

Our scientific advances will be merely obscene unless they help the large part of our world's population emerge from miserable uncertainty and debilitating terror.

Once I retire, I'm retiring. I'm done.

Ah, Mastery of the Five Elements!" "Is that the one we want?" I asked. "No, but a good one. How to tame the five essential elements of the universe - earth, air, water, fire, and cheese!" "Cheese?