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"You have to have that organizational principle behind the song."
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"My loathings are simple: stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music."

"88% of what we call good songs aren't really good. They merely remind us of a good time we once had."

"I am the daughter of the Chairman of the Board and thus, was raised with great music."
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"It's like first grade where you make all your mistakes and people see it and yet some people see that there's something there that's really valuable. That's the way it went for more than 2 years almost 3 years of playing."


"I just don't like people coming up to me and saying something. It immediately makes you become insincere. There is no way you can react to it sincerely."


"I always hated jazz guitar. I loved jazz saxophone but I hated jazz guitar. If I would buy an organ trio record I would make sure I'd buy one that did not have a guitar player on it. The sound was awful!"


"I think almost every woman artist I've ever met has this ideal of being in a partnership working situation with a man, that men don't seem to share. They seem to want this ideal thing, that we'll always be together and work together."


"All the Frank O'Hara types seem to have very little sound stuff going... it's so chatty or something."


"I don't see us as a big media gimmick band. We don't have a cultivated appearance or anything like Kiss."


"I wonder what all those Chinese poets sound like in Chinese. I like their distilled quality."
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