My mind is turning into kind of a fine gelatinous ball of pepper

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

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.

Whenever I can afford to do something, I do it.

Most people can't tell now who wrote what. I like that blurring of identities within the band. because it becomes a unified thing that can't be related to other forms of historical poetry

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

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!!'