Quotes by Lydia Lunch

About Lydia Lunch:

Lydia Lunch is an American singer, poet, writer, actress and self-empowerment speaker whose career was spawned by the New York No Wave scene. The Boston Phoenix named Lunch "one of the 10 most influential performers of the 1980s."
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The need to document my insanity is an affliction I have not yet cured myself of...

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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 of so many people—I knew that only in the details was it specific, and I just found it urgent to cut right to the chase and get right to ...

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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, you can succeed. Satisfaction is knowing that you're doing the best that you can do; you're living your life to the fullest.

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

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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 different name.

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

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

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

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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 what they are so I can achieve satisfaction.

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I'm like a one-woman protest machine.

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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 people are going to embrace it at the moment. The point is I'm leaving the mark of my hysteria and the political hysteria, ...

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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 of them a lot in my backdrops for my solo spoken-word stuff. The ghost towns could be from two buildings to 40 - things died out, ...

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

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

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I have to laugh because despite the destruction, we cannot let 'them' steal our pleasure. That is always the theme of my performances: I'm here to thrive, not just to survive.

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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 nightmare and horror that I witness; I just digest it and spew it back, with venom.

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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 truth in whatever you're doing, but the truth is not popular.

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Author Bio

  • NameLydia Lunch
  • DescriptionAmerican singer, author and actress
  • BornJune 2, 1959
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionSinger; Actor; Poet; Musician; Writer