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

I really want to do a book on the history of the no-wave music scene in New York, how it extended out and formed lots of other things. It was such a great visual culture.

Anyone who grows up with parents who are very influential, there are cases where people run away from that if they have parents who are really lame.

I never do releases to try and make or break some contemporary band.

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

I wanted to hear the songs in the way that I had written them, which was, in a way, very basic. So all I wanted to have was drums and another guitar pretty much playing what I wrote on guitar, and I was just going to sing.

We're playing all these weird festivals, usually outdoors.