Anyone becomes mannered if you think too much about what other people think — Kim Gordon Copy Share Image
Clothes are signifiers and symbols of how people communicate with each other. — Kim Gordon Copy Share Image
I'm a slow learner. When people are so talented or facile at picking up an instrument and playing covers, like Yo La… — Kim Gordon Copy Share Image
I can't think about whether I'll disappoint Sonic Youth fans. It's not like I want people to be disappointed, but I just… — Kim Gordon Copy Share Image
I don't really feel comfortable anywhere except when I'm working alone at home. It's exhausting to be out around people. — Kim Gordon Copy Share Image
In rock music, people have certain assumptions that it makes people more enlightened, and it really doesn't. — Kim Gordon Copy Share Image
I'm really nostalgic for Malibu area because I've spent so much time there. People don't think of California as having a history. — Kim Gordon Copy Share Image
In the early eighties, there were a lot of artists involved with the music scene. All those young artists, before their careers… — Kim Gordon Copy Share Image
I try not to think too much about what the audience is thinking and what they think I should do. I'd be… — Kim Gordon Copy Share Image
The clothes in themselves are empty. But what they throw off and what clothes mean as signifiers is incredibly interesting - to… — Kim Gordon Copy Share Image
I've done art on my own, and I've also collaborated with other people to make art. And collaborating with other people is… — Kim Gordon Copy Share Image
And then, I was thinking of doing a record just like starting with voice, because I did this one song that was… — Kim Gordon Copy Share Image
Fashion, at modern time, was actually a way for women to go out in the world. There was one painting of a… — Kim Gordon Copy Share Image
My parents lived by Rancho Park. And my mom, later in life, got into playing golf. She and her male cronies would… — Kim Gordon Copy Share Image
I am basically a shy person, so performing sometimes helps me focus - having all those people concentrate their attention on you.… — Kim Gordon Copy Share Image
I do retweet some of the things that people say about the things I've done, but I don't necessarily want to use… — Kim Gordon Copy Share Image
It's hard to say when the life of a band starts and stops... but playing music together is an act of trust. When that's… — Kim Gordon Copy Share
I think of myself as unconventional, I guess. I maybe always had a problem with authority, like a stubbornness about what's expected - despite… — Kim Gordon Copy Share
When I was young, there was never any space for me to get attention of my own that wasn't negative. Art, and the practice… — Kim Gordon Copy Share
I'm not saying Sonic Youth was a conceptual-art project for me, but in a way it was an extension of Warhol. Instead of making… — Kim Gordon Copy Share
I do retweet some of the things that people say about the things I've done, but I don't necessarily want to use it to… — Kim Gordon Copy Share
I am basically a shy person, so performing sometimes helps me focus - having all those people concentrate their attention on you. I don't… — Kim Gordon Copy Share
You're always going to feel like you're catching up, and part of that is just balancing work and motherhood and the whole feeling of… — Kim Gordon Copy Share
I was kind of freaked out by the art world in the 1980s. Just the money thing. All the competition over artists. — Kim Gordon Copy Share
Political art never goes away. I started watching The West Wing show recently and I'm actually learning about how the government works in a… — Kim Gordon Copy Share
Sonic Youth, for better or worse, is/was a machine that carried me along through pregnancy, motherhood, and creative opportunities I never would have achieved… — Kim Gordon Copy Share
In a lot of the art world, you have to present yourself as you know what you're doing at a young age. Music gave… — Kim Gordon Copy Share
I have a really hard time writing my own lyrics for this record, because one, I had to write so many and also I… — Kim Gordon Copy Share
In rock music, people have certain assumptions that it makes people more enlightened, and it really doesn't. — Kim Gordon Copy Share
Because our daughters have school and it's just such a hassle going down to New York all the time, we can really only go… — Kim Gordon Copy Share
