Pat Place is an artist, photographer, and musician noted for her work as a founding member and guitarist of no wave bands James Chance and the Contortions and Bush Tetras. In this interview, she discusses her childhood, upbringing, education, and move to New York City in the 1970s. She details her career in the Contortions and the Bush Tetras, her descent into drug addiction and subsequent sobriety, and the Bush Tetras reunion and current career.