Anyone becomes mannered if you think too much about what other people think

The clothes in themselves are empty. But what they throw off and what clothes mean as signifiers is incredibly interesting - to see what people do with it. That's more interesting to me than flipping through a magazine or seeing the fall look.

L.A. prides itself on newness or being the last frontier or just not liking old things and tearing them down to build new things.

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.

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

You know, we have our own audience, and it's not like - they just know we're not going to do certain things.

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.