The band has a liberal philosophy - that's sort of a given.

Tonight I am going to defecate on stage because I think that is the only way to express the nature of my soul according to rock and roll.

Every now and again, the alternative culture is cherished by the mainstream for what it is, rather than how it should be, like the mainstream popular music.

I certainly don't sit around in the morning making pancakes listening to Whitehouse or anything.

Lyric writing is an interesting process in Sonic Youth. There's three people writing now, and we've all had a lot of interest and involvement with expression through words

Hits are for squares.

DEVO was like the punk band that non Punk America saw as Punk and so when people who were really into Punk rock would be walking around on the streets the jocks who learned about Punk through Devo would roll down their windows and yell at the Punks: 'HEY, DEVO!!'