“I have been asked to give an artist talk on the request of the Danish government in exchange for my ticket here and back [laughter] I have been asked to talk about beat-survival, and how to make it in the avantgarde under today’s economy which I will refer to the OD Beatnick, Mr. Allen Ginsberg whom I never got to meet, except his boyfriend – at least that’s what he ...

“I don’t want to be some kind of solo-artist who is ex- a band like Sonic Youth. It seemed kind of boring to me. I just don’t wanted to come to a new town and be Thurston Moore, ex-Sonic Youth, I liked the idea of having a band, of being a band, that had a title or some kind of aesthethic. I always thought ...