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.

And then, I was thinking of doing a record just like starting with voice, because I did this one song that was just kind of a cappella, and I did it for this art piece I did where people could come and play music to go with a voice.

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

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.

I think of myself as unconventional. I maybe always had a problem with authority, like a stubbornness about what's expected - despite wanting to get some recognition through performing - but also not always wanting to do the expected thing.

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.

Because our daughters have school and it's just such a hassle going down to New York all the time, we can really only go on the weekends, we kind of... Steve came up here and worked out stuff for the second half of the record.