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
I've never been good with structure - doing assignments for the sake of them or doing things I'm supposed to do. — 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
I would be too self-conscious if I just thought of writing lyrics for a song. I have to trick myself into doing… — 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
I think that certainly, whenever you have a new band, the first record always has a certain energy to it before you… — Kim Gordon Copy Share Image
I grew up listening to John Coltrane and jazz, so they were subtle influences. I sometimes think about doing some kind of… — 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
