Culturally we don't allow women to be as free as they would like, because that is frightening. We either shun those women or deem them crazy… But bei….

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 ….

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..

I think of myself as unconventional. I maybe always had a problem with authority, like a stubbornness about what's expected - despite wanting to get ….

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….

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

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….

Clothes are signifiers and symbols of how people communicate with each other..

For me performing has a lot to do with being fearless..

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

I just happened to start playing music for the conceptual ideas..

Everyone's so interior now, they're not really looking around them. They're on their phones..

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

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….

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

I always think of baseball as so existential. Like, you're just out there in a field, in a big expanse of green grass..

Well, it was kind of accidental that Jim started playing with us, although it wasn't sudden... we hadn't really looked around to think who could be a….

Recently some work I made could be seen as feminist art or work that relates to the body. That's just what I'm feeling - like it needs to be done..

I just think that playing bass, like punk rock bass with a pick, wasn't meant to be done for 25 years..

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 ….

There is something wonderful about singing and writing music, I think there is something special about creativity and the ability humans have in that….