Myself Quotes by Kim Gordon

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

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

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

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

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

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

I just happened to start playing music for the conceptual ideas

— Kim Gordon

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

I was kind of freaked out by the art world in the 1980s. Just the money thing. All the competition over artists.

— Kim Gordon

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

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

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

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

In rock music, people have certain assumptions that it makes people more enlightened, and it really doesn't.

— Kim Gordon

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