List of Lydia Lunch Quotes

Musician' Is Not A Very Respected Title. I'm Not A Musician.

I'm Like A One-woman Protest Machine.

If People Could Understand How Much Pleasure They Could Have By Themselves, I Think Everyone Would Be A Lot Saner. I Think That People Really Need A Dose Of Quality Time With One's Self.

Just Because My Bank Account Hasn't Swelled Astronomically I Don't Consider Myself Any Less Of A Success.

I'm A Total Pleasure Seeker. I Pursue Anything That Satisfies Me. I Usually Get It. I Have Specific Needs And I Know What They Are So I Can Achieve Satisfaction.

I Decided To Lock Myself In. A Forced Segregation. Sabbatical. A Retreat Into Myself. My Selves. Play Hide And Go Seek In The Looking-glass. The Mirror Angled At The Foot Of My Bed. Twisted Reflections Bouncing Off Into Infinity. Obsessed With My Image, The Myriad Of Distored Figurines Who Danced In Front Of Me In Rapid Succession, Every Feature Exaggerated, Every Slight Imperfection A New Delicacy.

The American Way Of Life, As I See It, Is Really The American Way Of Death. Everything Is Determined By Greed And The Insatiable Desire To Be The Richest And Most Powerful. And That Desire Is Limitless.

My Job Is To Confront Apathy And Confront All The Forces That Tend To Batter Each Of Us Down With All Kind Of Oppression, Even Self-oppression. I Consider That The Main Job Of The Art That I Do- To Rattle The Cage, Wake People Up, Wake Myself Up, Confront All That Would Conspire To Keep Us Down.

I Would Be Humiliated If I Found Out That Anything I Did Actually Became A Commercial Success.

I Think It's Important To Encourage Gluttony In All Its Formats.

I Had To De-program Myself. From Myself. Had To Reinvent Rituals Of Purification. So Full Of The Vagrant Pollutions Of Others. It Was Time To Detox. Not Only From Alcohol, Sex, And Drugs, But From Needy Leeches Who Looked To Swab Me With Their Sores. Detox From My Own Needy Lechery. Had To Locate The Center Wound And Cauterize. Undo The Original Sin, The Origin Of My Sickness...had To Learn To Replace Them, It, Want, Hurt, Anger, Sorrow, Loss, With Power, Healing, Wisdom, Fulfillment, Satisfaction.

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 Takes Them A While To Warm Up To The "situation" But Once They Get Into It, I'm Sure They're Going To Get Just As Hooked As-well, Everyone I Know Is!