Kim Gordon

I tend to want to listen to melancholy music, but sometimes if you're feeling too sad, you can't.

— Kim Gordon

At the end of the day, women are expected to hold up the world, not annihilate it.

— Kim Gordon

Sometimes I think fashion is more of a conversation between men than it is for women.

— Kim Gordon

I just happened to start playing music for the conceptual ideas

— Kim Gordon

I really want to start playing basketball. I actually bought a new basketball.

— Kim Gordon

Everyone's so interior now, they're not really looking around them. They're on their phones.

— Kim Gordon

Basketball and ping-pong are my two forms of exercise.

— Kim Gordon

It's hard to write about a love story with a broken heart.

— Kim Gordon

It's hard to get hot over a painting; there's no equivalent for teenage obsessiveness. Art obsession is ideology. Ideology can be made…

— Kim Gordon

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

Well, it was kind of accidental that Jim started playing with us, although it wasn't sudden... we hadn't really looked around to…

— Kim Gordon

I always think of baseball as so existential. Like, you're just out there in a field, in a big expanse of green…

— Kim Gordon

I mean, most of it is probably more obscure and just more noisy than either of those two bands, but Thurston has…

— Kim Gordon

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

There's the added element of adrenaline if you're performing. You're aware of spatial relationships and the music.

— Kim Gordon

There is something wonderful about singing and writing music, I think there is something special about creativity and the ability humans have…

— Kim Gordon

In retrospect, it's ridiculous that anyone saw me as a fashion icon, since all I was trying to do was to dumb…

— Kim Gordon

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

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

In the early eighties, there were a lot of artists involved with the music scene. All those young artists, before their careers…

— Kim Gordon

I see it as more of a teenage activity than, you know, she's only 11, but you know, I think it's great…

— Kim Gordon

I think that certainly, whenever you have a new band, the first record always has a certain energy to it before you…

— Kim Gordon

I grew up listening to John Coltrane and jazz, so they were subtle influences. I sometimes think about doing some kind of…

— Kim Gordon

I'm aware of how pop culture really infiltrates your expectations in a way that even if you think you're savvy about pop…

— Kim Gordon

I'm a mom, but I don't always want to look just like that.

— 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.…

— Kim Gordon

I'm kind of a sloppy feminist. Any ideology makes me a little nervous because there's some point where it doesn't allow for…

— Kim Gordon

I just think that playing bass, like punk rock bass with a pick, wasn't meant to be done for 25 years.

— Kim Gordon

Recently some work I made could be seen as feminist art or work that relates to the body. That's just what I'm…

— Kim Gordon

I don't see myself as a rock star. I don't see myself in that way. I'm interested in work that offers some…

— Kim Gordon

In The Argonauts, Maggie Nelson turns 'making the personal public' into a romantic, intellectual wet dream. A gorgeous book, inventive, fearless, and…

— Kim Gordon

I love Northampton. As exciting and glamorous as New York can be, I'm always really relieved to get back there.

— Kim Gordon

When Punk Rock happened, it created an opening in the culture... it made it ok to think you could play music, even…

— Kim Gordon

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

— Kim Gordon

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

I would be too self-conscious if I just thought of writing lyrics for a song. I have to trick myself into doing…

— Kim Gordon

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

I've never been good with structure - doing assignments for the sake of them or doing things I'm supposed to do.

— Kim Gordon

I went to art school, and I wanted to be an artist since I was 5. I basically moved to New York…

— Kim Gordon

Many designers are gay men making clothes for women. Sometimes I think fashion is more of a conversation between men than it…

— Kim Gordon