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

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

" I try not to think too much about what the audience is thinking and what they think I should do. I'd be self-conscious if I did. Anyone becomes mannered if you think too much about what other people think. "

" 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 to do. "

" It's hard to say when the life of a band starts and stops... but playing music together is an act of trust. When that's broken, it's impossible to continue. "

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

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

" 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. "

" Working on art, as opposed to being in a constant collaborative state, as in a band, is something that I've always done - to a smaller degree, but it always remained a part of my integral self. "

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

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

" I don't see myself as a rock star. I don't see myself in that way. I'm interested in work that offers some sort of critical dialogue. "

" I don't really feel comfortable anywhere except when I'm working alone at home. It's exhausting to be out around people. "

" I can't think about whether I'll disappoint Sonic Youth fans. It's not like I want people to be disappointed, but I just can't control that. "

" 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 fifth member. "

" It is fun to smash guitars. "

" I have a really hard time writing my own lyrics for this record, because one, I had to write so many and also I was kind of perplexed by the idea of how I was going to sing and play... because at that time, we hadn't really thought about asking someone else. "

" I like that show 'Ray Donovan' - I'm obsessed with that. He's in Hollywood, he's some kind of a fixer, but he's also kind of a thug. And 'Scandal,' the D.C. one with Kerry Washington. "

" In the early eighties, there were a lot of artists involved with the music scene. All those young artists, before their careers took off, were into music. Robert Longo used to play some guitar. He had a band for a while. Basquiat had a band. I mean, people were always trying to mix music and art - in fact, I'm guilty of it myself. "

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

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

" Sometimes I think fashion is more of a conversation between men than it is for women. "

" 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'm a relatively shy person, but I love being challenged and putting myself in positions that are scary. "

" I'm a mom, but I don't always want to look just like that. "

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

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

" Part of my desire to play music was because I wanted to escape the art world and the politics of it; the petty gossip-y art world. But you know, I feel like they're both equal forms of expression. "

" I still don't really feel like a bass player. "