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
musician titles
Musician' is not a very respected title. I'm not a musician.
differences feminist bigs
I am a humanist not a feminist. Theres a big difference.
thinking self people
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.
beautiful lunch may
The female format is a beautiful one in which to function. Foolhardy as it may be. I change my image all the time, it's whatever suits me at the moment.
reflection glasses mirrors
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.
lunch mad busy
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.
powerful greed desire
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.
lunch would-be found
I would be humiliated if I found out that anything I did actually became a commercial success.
thinking stubborn violent
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.
optimistic lunch ends
I'm completely optimistic - I know the end is coming!
hate world hate-you
There is so much in the world to hate, why hate yourself?
hurt sex healing
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.
insanity affliction needs
The need to document my insanity is an affliction I have not yet cured myself of...
encouragement thinking lunch
I think it's important to encourage gluttony in all its formats.