“Whenever I work on an album and the time comes to do all the artwork, ...” — Lee Ranaldo Quote

“Whenever I work on an album and the time comes to do all the artwork, the only thing I think of is the LP artwork. When we worked on the 'Electric Trim' artwork, we spent weeks and weeks making the LP artwork great, and then the CD artwork came together in a day or two. The LP is what's important to me.”

“Sonic Youth played one show before we even had a drummer. It was just me, Kim, and Thurston. The lights slowly went down, and the set was just 30 minutes of feedback.”

“I guess I see 'Goo' half as a really New York record because I think there are a lot of really particular New York references on it, but I also see it, for us, as the first of our records that really opened up to the larger world around us.”

“I don't mind a big fascinator. I think there is more scope for artwork in a fascinator rather than a hat.”

“I've loved Basquiat since I was 13. From his artwork to his interviews to the way he thought about things, I've always been excited by him.”

“The beauty of any artwork is that it becomes the person that's watching it: What do you take out of it?”