I mean, I don't even think of myself as a musician, really.

I always think of baseball as so existential. Like, you're just out there in a field, in a big expanse of green grass.

Political art never goes away. I started watching The West Wing show recently and I'm actually learning about how the government works in a way. It's kind of embarrassing.

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.

I'm really nostalgic for Malibu area because I've spent so much time there. People don't think of California as having a history.

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.

Malibu history is interesting to me. My mom's family was one of the early families in California, so there's history going back to the 1840s or '50s. They came over in the Gold Rush, actually. I have all this guilt about raising my daughter in the East. Coco's very anti-California. It's her way of rebelling.