St. Lucia Quotes

When I was little, people like Talking Heads were on the radio. There was something geeky yet groundbreaking about them.

As I got older, I fell in love with Radiohead, and 'OK Computer' is one of my favorite albums of theirs. Sonically, the tone of the guitars on tracks like 'Electioneering' just rips right through me.

Sonic Youth could never really get it together acoustically - quite frankly, it wasn't something we were really that interested in.

We are aiming to create a one and only new music genre that exceeds the limits of pop and metal music.

I'm jamming 'Black Sabbath Vol. 4' all the time. Zappa's 'Cruising With Ruben & The Jets.' A lot of Gong lately. Some Hawkwind. The Residents' 'Duck Stab' is amazing. Some Fugs. Lots of stuff, man. I'm pretty schizophrenic with records.

I've been into Sonic Youth since junior high school. I think I kind of have ADD, so it's good music for ADD because it just throws you in different directions all the time. I really like Kim Gordon's voice and Thurston Moore's voice, and I like the guitars going off on tangents.

I was real into Devo, Pavement, Captain Beefheart, and the Jon Spencer Blues Explosion.

In the 1960s, people were trying to get away from the pop song format. Tracks were getting longer, or much, much shorter.

I have no interest in making music that's built for an antique shop.

I was a huge Radiohead fan growing up.

The Radiohead record, The Bends is my all-time favorite record on the planet.

We were like psychedelic folk combined with Sonic Youth's noise.

I've always been a huge Butthole Surfers fan. The first time I saw them was in the early '80s when all they had out was their first EP. I thought they were amazing. They've always been a huge influence and one of my all-time favorite bands.

Musicians like James Blake were a big influence on me. How he uses his vocals is amazing. And then Yeasayer and Animal Collective, who aren't pop bands exactly, but they do something that is so catchy and undeniable and so much fun.

When Soundgarden formed, we were post-punk - pretty quirky.

The Zombies were really unique - they had elements of jazz and classical music in their songs and songwriting. They had a very, very different sound compared to a lot of their contemporaries at the time.

In 'Kid A' and 'Amnesiac,' Mr. Yorke's lyrics were often unfathomable, moaned and mumbled and forced beneath the surface of the music. In 'Hail to the Thief,' most but not all of the words can be decoded after a few listens.

If you make rock music with guitars in it, the Radiohead comparison is inevitable.

I listened to Kanye West and also dove deep into bands like Radiohead, Portishead, and Bon Iver.

Obviously, Sonic Youth has been a huge part of my life for many, many years, and I love all those guys dearly.

Tightly embracing guitar effects and tape loops, Mission of Burma made sound an important commodity in rock 'n' roll, and its members carried that tradition into their first album after a 19-year hiatus, 2004's 'ONoffON.'

Sonic Youth was not a singer-songwriter band. It was an electric collective. And, whatever else people's perceptions of Sonic Youth were, it was always about putting together a time-based composition - and that is exactly what songwriting is, in its classic form.

We wanted to be like Radiohead. When they started experimenting with electronic music, it gave us the idea that it might be a cool idea to do.

I don't know what the vintage Sonic Youth sound is.

I myself am a huge Radiohead fan.