I've been trying to challenge myself to be more explicit. I've always liked punk rock and Sonic Youth. I make that music privately, but I've never released it.

I felt like no one was really looking out for me, that I was marginal and incidental. I compensated by being spongelike, impressionable, and available to whatever and whoever provided the most comfort, the most sense of belonging. I was learning two sets of skills simultaneously: adaptation - linguistic and aesthetic - in order to fit in, but also, how to survive on my own.

Pixies and Sonic Youth were so important to the eighties.

"I'm still wearing the pants I had in the eleventh grade."

Play before you get good, because by the time you get good, you're too old to play.

Propriety is the new punk.