I've always played acoustically - it's how I learned. I grew up listening to Leonard Cohen, Joni Mitchell, Neil Young, Dylan and what have you.

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

During the whole time in Sonic Youth, I was happy to put my energy into that. It would have been very difficult to do a solo project.

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.

I'd rather have vinyl and a download code than a CD any day.

One thing I always hated with CDs is when people started putting 65 to 75 minutes on their albums.

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.

Probably the most fun thing we do in our lives is getting up on stage.

I always use the Rolling Stones as the whipping boy for this, but they still play old songs as 90% of their set, and we would die if that were the case.

It's not like we set out to antagonize the audience in any way. We're just presenting our music; it's really much more innocent.