Lydia Lunch

Think your own thoughts.

— Lydia Lunch

I'm like a one-woman protest machine.

— Lydia Lunch

The need to document my insanity is an affliction I have not yet cured myself of...

— Lydia Lunch

I am a humanist not a feminist. There's a big difference.

— Lydia Lunch

I'm completely optimistic - I know the end is coming!

— Lydia Lunch

I watch the news. It fuels my rage; it informs my work.

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There is so much in the world to hate, why hate yourself?

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Politics are always involved, even in my love songs.

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The imperial, genocidal war machine never rests, so I don't either.

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Musician' is not a very respected title. I'm not a musician.

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I'm a total pleasure seeker. I pursue anything that satisfies me. I usually get it. I have specific needs and I know…

— Lydia Lunch

Sure you're powerless, sure you're just one person, sure you can't change anything but you don't have to be miserable about it…

— Lydia Lunch

Part of what I have to represent is an alternative to this perverted fashion industry concept of what beauty is.

— Lydia Lunch

Part of the charm of what I do is the fact that it's completely unrelated to everything that came before.

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The problem with music was always that the sound system often obliterated the words, and words, not music, have always been what…

— Lydia Lunch

People have always asked me, 'Haven't you wanted to sell out?', and it's like, who am I going to sell to?

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I used to think feminism was a liberating force - now I see many of those people are just censors under a…

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I'm a very sympathetic person, but that doesn't always come across in my work because I'm too busy being mad at everything.

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Because we have so much eye candy and mind candy, spending so much time trying to pay the rent, all of this…

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The American way of life, as I see it, is really the American way of death. Everything is determined by greed and…

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Women are denied masturbation even more severely than men and that's another method of control-they're not taught to please themselves… Most women-it…

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The biggest insult is that I've been called an exaggerator... I tell the truth as I know it. I don't glamorize the…

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To be in a band, at least according to the rules of rock in the 1970s, one must know how to play…

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Honesty works against you in the entertainment field. I try to be a journalist and a documentarian, but that doesn't mean that…

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I believe happiness is a chemical imbalance - it's a silly thing to strife for. But satisfaction - if you seek satisfaction,…

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“And is death not the ultimate orgasm, a return to that otherworldly ether, whose very origins were indeed a Big Bang, the…

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“And I feared that death picks up where life left off. An endless barrage of unbearable obstacles. A godforsaken terrain where lost…

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“No easy way out. No escape. From yourself. You had to LEARN to DEAL with the cards you were dealt. Had to…

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I decided to lock myself in. A forced segregation. Sabbatical. A retreat into myself. My selves. Play hide and go seek in…

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I had to de-program myself. From myself. Had to reinvent rituals of purification. So full of the vagrant pollutions of others. It…

— Lydia Lunch

I am a humanist not a feminist. Theres a big difference.

— Lydia Lunch

You want positive, go elsewhere. Go find a different lie.

— Lydia Lunch

I think it's important to encourage gluttony in all its formats.

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Two of my favourite books are Henry Miller's 'Tropic of Cancer' and 'Tropic of Capricorn.'

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I would be humiliated if I found out that anything I did actually became a commercial success.

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If what I write is literature, I guess you'd better emphasize the 'litter.'

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I've always been inspired by Genet, Henry Miller and Hubert Selby, Jr., who taught me that you've got to tell a bigger…

— Lydia Lunch

Part of the charm of what I do is the fact that its completely unrelated to everything that came before.

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The female format is a beautiful one in which to function. Foolhardy as it may be. I change my image all the…

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I think my speeches are hilarious. I think I'm a natural comedian, but I like denying people the chance to laugh. I…

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