I think of myself as unconventional, I guess. I maybe always had a problem with authority, like a stubbornness about what's expected… — 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… — Kim Gordon Copy Share Image
I don't have any desire to do something that sounds explicitly rock. Like, I don't have a burning need to be a… — 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'll leave a store if I hate the music. If it's just, like, techno, I feel like my brain is going to… — Kim Gordon Copy Share Image
I never felt like I had anything really figured out. When I was a teenager, it was all about teenagers having an… — 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 even know if I always entirely get what I'm trying to say right away with lyrics. I like a lot… — Kim Gordon Copy Share Image
I wasn't very confident about clothes; I was always hunting through racks, never sure what looked right. It can be like that… — Kim Gordon Copy Share Image
I like the adrenaline of playing improv - it makes me feel really calm. — Kim Gordon Copy Share Image
I was very aware of performers who have a persona, whether it's Siouxsie Sioux or Patti Smith or Lydia Lunch, and I'm… — Kim Gordon Copy Share Image
A friend of mine introduced me to Thurston Moore because she thought I would like him. He was playing with the tallest… — Kim Gordon Copy Share Image
You can't be a strong or cool woman and be represented except in a harsh way, looking mean and cold and hard.… — Kim Gordon Copy Share Image
I like that show 'Ray Donovan' - I'm obsessed with that. He's in Hollywood, he's some kind of a fixer, but he's… — 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 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
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
