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

Women are natural anarchists...

It's hard to write about a love story with a broken heart.

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.

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

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

I'm aware of how pop culture really infiltrates your expectations in a way that even if you think you're savvy about pop culture, it's so hard not to have these expectations of what a relationship should be. So I constantly feel like I have to bat those expectations down.