Thurston Moore

“Kids think of us as being totally over the hill.”

“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.”

“I never do releases to try and make or break some contemporary band.”

“Whenever I can afford to do something, I do it.”

“We're like old people now playing music. I'm so glad we stuck it out because it's a lot better. I used to feel kind of anxious. Now our apprenticeship is over.”

“Anyone who grows up with parents who are very influential, there are cases where people run away from that if they have parents who are really lame.”

“I was surrounded by nature and trying to come to terms with this blissful nature versus the inhumane mentality of war. People were being deluded by someone using the word peace.”

“Most people can't tell now who wrote what. I like that blurring of identities within the band. because it becomes a unified thing that can't be related to other forms of historical poetry.”