Sonic Youth Quotes
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I grew up in the early '70s in New England.
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Every band runs its course.
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In the week following Sandy, we weren't flooded, but we were without everything else - I ended up living by candlelight - no phones, no computers, no light, no power. If we took a walk at night to go and find something to eat, it was completely black, with no lights coming out of the windows, no street lights: a very apocalyptic feeling.
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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 love Northampton. As exciting and glamorous as New York can be, I'm always really relieved to get back there.
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We'd been on Geffen for a long time, and I think we felt that we needed a change. I just don't think we felt very close to the people at the label after all this time or that they understood what we were trying to do. I don't have any regrets, because at the time we signed with Geffen, it was the right thing to do.
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I'm a mom, but I don't always want to look just like that.
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When Sonic Youth wrote music, we would rehearse for months before anybody heard anything.
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I've been sort of writing sketches for songs on my own forever and putting them down on cassette tapes. Yet for years and years and years, my main songwriting outlet was as a member of Sonic Youth, and for most of our time together, our best songs were written in a group setting, where the four of us were getting together in a room.
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We're not really an underground band anymore, and we're not a mainstream band, either.
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Sometimes, you don't know where your inspiration's going to come from.
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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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I guess, from the beginning, Thurston and Kim were the dominant singers in the band, and although I was singing in bands previously, I guess I mainly deferred to them a lot in terms of who was singing the bulk of the songs.
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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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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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My solo shows require a sit-down, indoor space.
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Sonic Youth has a very democratic process for the most part. It almost doesn't matter who brings in an initial idea; everything gets worked over by the band and kind of co-written by everyone in the end because everyone's ideas get contributed to it.
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Sonic Youth could never really get it together acoustically - quite frankly, it wasn't something we were really that interested in.
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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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One thing I always loved about vinyl was the length of a side, around 20 or 22 minutes. That's the perfect length of an attention span for listening time, you know? You could listen and give it all your attention. Put on something that's 70 minutes, and nobody's sticking around past the first 20 or 30 minutes.
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We never notate our music, so you can try to replicate it, but you don't really have it.
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I always think that, for me, being someone who comes out of electric guitar experimentation, the idea of playing acoustic guitar is, in itself, kind of a radical move.
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I came late to Sandy Denny and Fairport Convention. I don't know why, but that's the beauty of music - songs and voices are there when you need them, when you're ready to find them, whether in their time or after.
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I'm a relatively shy person, but I love being challenged and putting myself in positions that are scary.