It's really hard for me to sing and play bass.

It's really hard for me to sing and play bass.

I'm not saying Sonic Youth was a conceptual-art project for me, but in a way it was an extension of Warhol. Instead of making criticism about popular culture, as a lot of artists do, I worked within it to do something.

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.

I just think that playing bass, like punk rock bass with a pick, wasn't meant to be done for 25 years.

I just happened to start playing music for the conceptual ideas.

In The Argonauts, Maggie Nelson turns 'making the personal public' into a romantic, intellectual wet dream. A gorgeous book, inventive, fearless, and full of heart.