After you've graduated, you're supposed to be an adult and go out into the world, and you're still not formed. It's an… — 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
At the end of the day, women are expected to hold up the world, not annihilate it. — 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
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
Fashion, at modern time, was actually a way for women to go out in the world. There was one painting of a… — 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
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
Culturally we don't allow women to be as free as they would like, because that is frightening. We either shun those women… — 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
