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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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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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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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We're not really an underground band anymore, and we're not a mainstream band, either.
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When Sonic Youth wrote music, we would rehearse for months before anybody heard anything.
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We're all very sensitive that Jim has the shortest history with the band. He wants to be somewhat of a free agent. I'm just going to let time dictate how Jim's future evolves.
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Traditional songwriting, to us, is where the experimental nature comes in. We're all involved with so much outside activity with really hardcore, experimental music-making.
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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.
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I've never been a huge Zeppelin fan, much to the chagrin of everybody else in my former band. But certainly those Pink Floyd records, I was really into them, especially 'Dark Side of the Moon.'
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I absolutely love Las Vegas. I've been there a bunch of times on my own.
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I grew up in the early '70s in New England.
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New York always has a lot of creativity going on.
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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.
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I'm a relatively shy person, but I love being challenged and putting myself in positions that are scary.
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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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Every band runs its course.
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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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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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No one really gets rich doing this. A couple people do, Black Sabbath does. We don't sell any records anymore.
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I never do releases to try and make or break some contemporary band.
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I don't know what the vintage Sonic Youth sound is.
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My solo shows require a sit-down, indoor space.
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It's American Alternative radio stations that bug me. We're considered Alternative, but don't expect us to be played next to Blink 182 and Offspring. We're hardly of that generation.
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When you listen to early Leonard Cohen records or Joni Mitchell records, you feel like a window is being opened into someone's life.