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
It's really hard for me to sing and play bass. Unless you're singing something that's kind of in rhythm with the bass,… — 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 feel most free onstage. The audience, it's an abstraction. You don't really see anyone out there, but you feel the audience… — Kim Gordon Copy Share Image
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
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 try not to think too much about what the audience is thinking and what they think I should do. I'd be… — 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 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
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 am basically a shy person, so performing sometimes helps me focus - having all those people concentrate their attention on you.… — 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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 Copy Share
In rock music, people have certain assumptions that it makes people more enlightened, and it really doesn't. — Kim Gordon Copy Share
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 Copy Share
