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 ….

I really want to start playing basketball. Basketball and ping-pong are my two forms of exercise..

I always felt like an outsider to the music world in a certain way. There was so much less of an art culture in L.A. - and particularly in the South ….

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

Rap music is really good when you're traumatized..

You can't be a strong or cool woman and be represented except in a harsh way, looking mean and cold and hard. It's like reverse sexism..

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 ….

Someone once wrote that in between the lives we lead and the lives we fantasize about living is the place in our heads where most of us actually live..

I mean, who made up all the rules in the culture? Men-white male corporate society. So why wouldnt a woman want to rebel against that?.

I was talking to somebody about the L.A. hardcore scene, and they were saying that it was hard for them to picture punk rock at the beach. Like, the ….

I'm aware of how pop culture really infiltrates your expectations in a way that even if you think you're savvy about pop culture, it's so hard not to….

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 mean, I don't even think of myself as a musician, really..

Women make natural anarchists and revolutionaries, because they've always been second-class citizens, kinda having had to claw their way up..

The clothes in themselves are empty. But what they throw off and what clothes mean as signifiers is incredibly interesting - to see what people do wi….

It's really hard for me to sing and play bass..

I tend to want to listen to melancholy music, but sometimes if you're feeling too sad, you can't..

Unless you're singing something that's kind of in rhythm with the bass, the melodies, it's just difficult..

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..

At the end of the day, women are expected to hold up the world, not annihilate it..

I always wanted to rebel..