I try not to think too much about what the audience is thinking and what they think I should do.

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

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

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

Fashion, at modern time, was actually a way for women to go out in the world. There was one painting of a woman sitting at a café, drinking a beer by herself and kind of pretending to read but really watching people, that sort of thing. It fascinated me.

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 always felt like an outsider to the music world in a certain way. There was so much less of an art culture in L.A. - and particularly in the South Bay.