When I was young, there was never any space for me to get attention of my own that wasn't negative. Art, and… — Kim Gordon Copy Share Image
I'm not saying Sonic Youth was a conceptual-art project for me, but in a way it was an extension of Warhol. Instead… — Kim Gordon Copy Share Image
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 Image
Political art never goes away. I started watching The West Wing show recently and I'm actually learning about how the government works… — Kim Gordon Copy Share Image
In a lot of the art world, you have to present yourself as you know what you're doing at a young age.… — 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 always felt like an outsider to the music world in a certain way. There was so much less of an art… — Kim Gordon Copy Share Image
Part of my desire to play music was because I wanted to escape the art world and the politics of it; the… — 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
I never really thought of myself as a musician. I'm not saying Sonic Youth was a conceptual-art project for me, but in… — Kim Gordon Copy Share Image
I picked up the bass kind of postpunk-style. There's a real art to not learning how to play an instrument and being… — Kim Gordon Copy Share Image
Recently some work I made could be seen as feminist art or work that relates to the body. That's just what I'm… — Kim Gordon Copy Share Image
I went to art school, and I wanted to be an artist since I was 5. I basically moved to New York… — Kim Gordon Copy Share Image
Working on art, as opposed to being in a constant collaborative state, as in a band, is something that I've always done… — Kim Gordon Copy Share Image
It's hard to get hot over a painting; there's no equivalent for teenage obsessiveness. Art obsession is ideology. Ideology can be made… — 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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 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 it to… — 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. I don't… — Kim Gordon Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
