My wife's from Canada, and we're Canadian citizens.
I absolutely love Las Vegas. I've been there a bunch of times on my own.
Sometimes it takes us a long time to build up songs, and we really work the structures over and over and build in lots of noisy parts.
I really liked the Jean-Luc Godard movie, 'Film Socialisme.'
I ride a bicycle. I make artwork and do other kinds of stuff - but in terms of unwind, I like to play tennis and ride.
One thing I always hated with CDs is when people started putting 65 to 75 minutes on their albums.
Songs seem to always spring from improvisation.
Obviously, Sonic Youth has been a huge part of my life for many, many years, and I love all those guys dearly.
Probably the most fun thing we do in our lives is getting up on stage.
Obviously, for Geffen, if it wasn't for us, it's quite possible that bands like Nirvana or Beck would not be on the label.
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.
The Grateful Dead always had their iconography down pat.
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.
The Strokes will never get anywhere after that first record.
We find that the more you talk about it, the more you head off any spontaneous inspiration that might happen.
Change is always good. It brings you to a new place.
Sometimes, you don't know where your inspiration's going to come from.
I don't know what the vintage Sonic Youth sound is.
It's not like we set out to antagonize the audience in any way. We're just presenting our music; it's really much more innocent.
I'd rather have vinyl and a download code than a CD any day.
Sonic Youth could never really get it together acoustically - quite frankly, it wasn't something we were really that interested in.
I don't mourn the old, romantic, dirty Times Square, although it was more unique.
When you listen to early Leonard Cohen records or Joni Mitchell records, you feel like a window is being opened into someone's life.
When Sonic Youth wrote music, we would rehearse for months before anybody heard anything.
