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

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.

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.

At the end of the day, women are expected to hold up the world, not annihilate it.

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 think of myself as unconventional. I maybe always had a problem with authority, like a stubbornness about what's expected - despite wanting to get some recognition through performing - but also not always wanting to do the expected thing.