Someone once wrote that in between the lives we lead and the lives we fantasize about living is the place in our heads where most of us actually live.

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.

My parents lived by Rancho Park. And my mom, later in life, got into playing golf. She and her male cronies would get up at five in the morning and sneak onto the back nine. I kind of just started getting into it. For a long time I was really puzzled by why people liked it.

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

When Punk Rock happened, it created an opening in the culture... it made it ok to think you could play music, even though you had no musical training.

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

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