No one talks about woman power. The Spice Girls - they're masquerading as little girls. It's repulsive.

For me performing has a lot to do with being fearless.

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'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.

The clothes in themselves are empty. But what they throw off and what clothes mean as signifiers is incredibly interesting - to see what people do with it. That's more interesting to me than flipping through a magazine or seeing the fall look.

There's the added element of adrenaline if you're performing. You're aware of spatial relationships and the music.

Women are natural anarchists...