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" Sonic Youth, for better or worse, is/was a machine that carried me along through pregnancy, motherhood, and creative opportunities I never would have achieved on my own. I'm grateful and surprised that we were listened to, loved, ignored, and overrated. "

" 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 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. "

" I wasn't very confident about clothes; I was always hunting through racks, never sure what looked right. It can be like that again when you're older. "

" Basketball and ping-pong are my two forms of exercise. "

" 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 is fun to smash guitars. "

" I think that certainly, whenever you have a new band, the first record always has a certain energy to it before you know what you're doing. I think some of the early Sonic Youth stuff was maybe like that. "

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

" 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. "

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

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

" 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 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. "

" In rock music, people have certain assumptions that it makes people more enlightened, and it really doesn't. "

" 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 music. And I see it more as a teen activity than I do as going into music. "

" 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. But 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'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. "

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

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

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

" I love Northampton. As exciting and glamorous as New York can be, I'm always really relieved to get back there. "

" 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. "

" Women make natural anarchists and revolutionaries because they've always been second-class citizens, kinda having had to claw their way up. I mean, who made up all the rules in the culture? Men - white male corporate society. So why wouldn't a woman want to rebel against that? "

" It's amazing how many things you can do when you're just pretending. "

" 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. "

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

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