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.

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

In The Argonauts, Maggie Nelson turns 'making the personal public' into a romantic, intellectual wet dream. A gorgeous book, inventive, fearless, and full of heart.

Twitter reminds me of an era in French literature - Emile Zola and Honoré de Balzac - and the beginning of modernity and gossip. They had these fashion magazines of the time on display with all of the Emile Zola references.

Many designers are gay men making clothes for women. Sometimes I think fashion is more of a conversation between men than it is for women.

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

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