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'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 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 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
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
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
Women make natural anarchists and revolutionaries because they've always been second-class citizens, kinda having had to claw their way up. I mean,… — 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 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
