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

I see it as more of a teenage activity than, you know, she's only 11, but you know, I think it's great that she knows so many girls who want to play ….

Twitter reminds me of an era in French literature - Emile Zola and Honoré de Balzac - and the beginning of modernity and gossip. They had these fashi….

In retrospect, it's ridiculous that anyone saw me as a fashion icon, since all I was trying to do was to dumb down my middle-class look by messing wi….

L.A. prides itself on newness or being the last frontier or just not liking old things and tearing them down to build new things..

There's the added element of adrenaline if you're performing. You're aware of spatial relationships and the music..

When I was young, there was never any space for me to get attention of my own that wasn't negative. Art, and the practice of making art, was the only….

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….

I'm not saying Sonic Youth was a conceptual-art project for me, but in a way it was an extension of Warhol. Instead of making criticism about popular….

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..

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

I really like Olivier Assayas filmmaking. He always has this global - economy thing going on..

Malibu history is interesting to me. My mom's family was one of the early families in California, so there's history going back to the 1840s or '50s.….

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

You're always going to feel like you're catching up, and part of that is just balancing work and motherhood and the whole feeling of needing to pleas….

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 ….

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

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..

Political art never goes away. I started watching The West Wing show recently and I'm actually learning about how the government works in a way. It's….

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.….

My parents lived by Rancho Park. And my mom, later in life, got into playing golf. She and her male cronies would get up at five in the morning and s….