“It took me three years to understand Sonic Youth. The music itself made sense to me, as I'd come to the Youth through the avant-garde, through people like John Zorn, Morton Feldman, and Iannis Xenakis. What I didn't understand were the lyrics and their inflection. I had a background in the Beats, I liked lots of pop music, but there was something that came across as goofy and insincere in the lyri”
