Lydia Lunch

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

— Lydia Lunch

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

— Lydia Lunch

I'm nihilistic, antagonistic, violent, horrible - but not obliterated, yet. I just refuse to be beaten down. I think it's stubborness that…

— Lydia Lunch

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

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

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“I knew that my trauma, no matter what it was, was not unique. I knew that pain was the universal driving force…

— Lydia Lunch

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

— Lydia Lunch

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

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Living in Barcelona, I have my own little ghetto utopia. There are 3,000 ghost towns in Spain, and I've used the images…

— Lydia Lunch

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

— Lydia Lunch

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

— Lydia Lunch

Just because my bank account hasn't swelled astronomically I don't consider myself any less of a success.

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

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If people could understand how much pleasure they could have by themselves, I think everyone would be a lot saner. I think…

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

— Lydia Lunch

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

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

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

— Lydia Lunch