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'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.

If you don't fit into a certain type, there's a lot of strength in just being who you are.

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.

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

Recently some work I made could be seen as feminist art or work that relates to the body. That's just what I'm feeling - like it needs to be done.

I really like Olivier Assayas filmmaking. He always has this global - economy thing going on.