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" 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? "

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" 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. "

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

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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. "

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

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" I don't have any desire to do something that sounds explicitly rock. Like, I don't have a burning need to be a rock musician. I feel like I've taken that as far as I can take it, for me. "

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" 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. "

" 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. "

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Mean

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

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

" In a lot of the art world, you have to present yourself as you know what you're doing at a young age. Music gave me another outlet. The 'no wave' bands were such an inspiration; it felt so free - once you start doing it, it's hard to stop. But I can't get away from art. It comes back around. I wouldn't be true to myself if I didn't pursue it. "

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

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

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

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

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

" 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 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. "

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

" 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. "

" It's hard to get hot over a painting; there's no equivalent for teenage obsessiveness. Art obsession is ideology. Ideology can be made sexy, but it's easier in music. "

" 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. "

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

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

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

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

" I grew up listening to John Coltrane and jazz, so they were subtle influences. I sometimes think about doing some kind of weird jazz record, but I don't know... It's on my list of things to do. I don't want to have to then go promote it. "

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Doing

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