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" 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. "

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

" 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 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? "

" 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. "

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

" I think of myself as unconventional, I guess. I maybe always had a problem with authority, like a stubbornness about what's expected - despite wanting to get some recognition through performing - but also not always wanting to do the expected thing. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" And then, I was thinking of doing a record just like starting with voice, because I did this one song that was just kind of a cappella, and I did it for this art piece I did where people could come and play music to go with a voice. "

" 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. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

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

" 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 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. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" The last two records I liked playing a lot. "

" 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. "