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" But everything has been so gradual that it's sort of all come from, just hard work and basically being at it. "

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" A friend of mine introduced me to Thurston Moore because she thought I would like him. He was playing with the tallest band in the world, the Coachmen. They were sort of like Talking Heads, jangly guitar, Feelies guitar. Anyway, it was love at first sight. His band broke up that night. And we started playing. "

" It's really hard for me to sing and play bass. Unless you're singing something that's kind of in rhythm with the bass, the melodies, it's just difficult. "

" No one talks about woman power. The Spice Girls - they're masquerading as little girls. It's repulsive. "

" 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 sneak onto the back nine. I kind of just started getting into it. For a long time, I was really puzzled by why people liked it. "

" I'll leave a store if I hate the music. If it's just, like, techno, I feel like my brain is going to explode. "

" Anyone becomes mannered if you think too much about what other people think. "

" I mean, most of it is probably more obscure and just more noisy than either of those two bands, but Thurston has stuff all the time that he's involved with that is fairly obscure and experimental. "

" 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 please, which I do think girls and women feel more than men. "

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

" I was kind of freaked out by the art world in the 1980s. Just the money thing. All the competition over artists. "

" I've never been good with structure - doing assignments for the sake of them or doing things I'm supposed to do. "

" I do retweet some of the things that people say about the things I've done, but I don't necessarily want to use it to promote myself because I find that it gets kind of boring. There should just be a whole different site for that. Because it's just kind of boring and gross to use it just self-promotion. "

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

" I feel most free onstage. The audience, it's an abstraction. You don't really see anyone out there, but you feel the audience inside you. "

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

" I never thought about doing anything other than making art. "

" I like the adrenaline of playing improv - it makes me feel really calm. "

" I've done art on my own, and I've also collaborated with other people to make art. And collaborating with other people is always interesting because you end up doing things you probably wouldn't do otherwise. "

" I picked up the bass kind of postpunk-style. There's a real art to not learning how to play an instrument and being able to still play it. "

" I really want to start playing basketball. I actually bought a new basketball. "

" I'm a slow learner. When people are so talented or facile at picking up an instrument and playing covers, like Yo La Tengo, I admire that. But I could never do that. "

" I'm kind of a sloppy feminist. Any ideology makes me a little nervous because there's some point where it doesn't allow for the complexity of things. "

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

" I would be too self-conscious if I just thought of writing lyrics for a song. I have to trick myself into doing it. "

" 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... Steve came up here and worked out stuff for the second half of the record. "

" I was very aware of performers who have a persona, whether it's Siouxsie Sioux or Patti Smith or Lydia Lunch, and I'm just this middle-class girl coming from a more conventional upbringing, this California person. But in a way I felt like it's important to represent the normal. "

" I watch 'Buffy the Vampire Slayer' with my daughter. We're very into Buffy and Buffy's friends. "

" I am basically a shy person, so performing sometimes helps me focus - having all those people concentrate their attention on you. I don't see it so much as becoming another person onstage; it's more exploring a different side of your personality. "

" It is fun to smash guitars. "

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