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I certainly don't sit around in the morning making pancakes listening to Whitehouse or anything.
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Each member does whatever they want with the song and it totally changes it from whatever idea I hear around it. It turns it into a Sonic Youth song and completely away from it being a solo song.
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And for me, I think of the group as one in which there's always this pendulum swinging back and forth between writing shorter, more concise pieces until we get kind of sick of it and then writing pieces that get more sprawling and experimental and explore in different directions.
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Rock'n'roll saved my soul.
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A lot of the lyrical ideas do have a lot of meaning in a way, although it is somewhat abstracted.
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Sometimes, you don't know where your inspiration's going to come from.
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When Sonic Youth wrote music, we would rehearse for months before anybody heard anything.
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I love Northampton. As exciting and glamorous as New York can be, I'm always really relieved to get back there.
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Unless you're singing something that's kind of in rhythm with the bass, the melodies, it's just difficult.
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We're not really an underground band anymore, and we're not a mainstream band, either.
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In Sonic Youth, at the end of 'Expressway to Yr. Skull,' we'd tap on the backs of our guitars to get this low-level feedback, and if I leaned forward, and the guitar hung off my body, it would resonate differently.
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The Grateful Dead always had their iconography down pat.
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I'm married to a Canadian so I have a lot of fond thoughts about Canada. I think about the prairies of Manitoba, where my wife is from, and I have a lot of friends and relatives on both coasts and have spent a lot time in Canada from Nova Scotia to B.C. In some ways, it's a much more sane country than the U.S.
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Rap music is really good when you're traumatized.
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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.
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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.
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My solo shows require a sit-down, indoor space.
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Every now and again, the alternative culture is cherished by the mainstream for what it is, rather than how it should be, like the mainstream popular music.
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Sometimes, for me, lyrics are derived from poems that I'm working on, and they kind of cross back and forth between the two.
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I gravitated to New York City in the late '70s to pursue a career in visual art, which is what I trained in at university.
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One of the key guitars in my career has been an early-Seventies Fender Telecaster Deluxe that I had before Sonic Youth started and that I played pretty much throughout Sonic Youth.
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During the whole time in Sonic Youth, I was happy to put my energy into that. It would have been very difficult to do a solo project.
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When Sonic Youth writes music, we write everything in a very communal way. It doesn't matter who brought something in initially; it all gets transformed by the band.
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I didn't intend to make one solo record, much less two. It's really a matter of seeing how it goes.