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

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.

You can't be a strong or cool woman and be represented except in a harsh way, looking mean and cold and hard. It's like reverse sexism.

Women are natural anarchists...

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.

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

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.