Ikue Mori Quotations

I've done some music for films and I really enjoy doing it.

Actually, there was another band where we were three girls, around '84 when I met John Zorn, called Sunset Chorus. It was just bass and drums and guitar- we didn't make any records but we played a lot of different clubs in New York.

Blood and death. That moves me.

Mars is really different, into art. Lydia Lunch is more energy. James Chance is more commercial in a different way, in funk and jazz. They were all doing original things, trying to create their own sound and music. I think they're all great.

I got tired of different drum sounds so you buy different effects for more manipulation.

I really didn't intend to be a musician when I left Japan.

With a rock band, you play the same things over and over and over.

The most important thing is that it's much more fun to play in a band than to be in an audience in a club. That's the main thing I think, that you can do it.

I always wanted to get out of Tokyo and in 1977, New York seemed like the most interesting place to visit. I didn't intend to live here- I just wanted to get out and see what was happening. I just happened to stay here then.

I just got a grant from the artists space, Roulette. It's for chamber music, electronics and percussion. That's going to be my work for next year.