Lydia Lunch
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."...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPop Singer
Date of Birth2 June 1959
CityRochester, NY
CountryUnited States of America
buildings died ghetto ghost images lead solo towns
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, or there were plagues, the roads don't lead there, whatever.
people
People have always asked me, 'Haven't you wanted to sell out?', and it's like, who am I going to sell to?
bigger henry inspired miller taught truth whatever
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.
positive
You want positive, go elsewhere. Go find a different lie.
war
The imperial, genocidal war machine never rests, so I don't either.
art jobs self
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.
thinking
Think your own thoughts.
song involved
Politics are always involved, even in my love songs.
machines protest one-woman
I'm like a one-woman protest machine.
thinking names people
I used to think feminism was a liberating force - now I see many of those people are just censors under a different name.
lunch satisfaction needs
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.
lunch facts charm
Part of the charm of what I do is the fact that its completely unrelated to everything that came before.
thinking lunch people
I just prefer instrumental. I don't need to hear what other people are singing. And if I need music as a backdrop to work or to think, I need to have that part of the brain clear - I don't need people feeding their fantasies into my vision.
miserable wells cant-change
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 as well.