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You know, we have our own audience, and it's not like - they just know we're not going to do certain things. — Kim Gordon

For me performing has a lot to do with being fearless. — Kim Gordon

Rap music is really good when you're traumatized. — 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 sort of critical dialogue. — Kim Gordon

The girl anchors the stage, sucks in the male gaze, and, depending on who she is, throws her own gaze back out into the audience. — Kim Gordon

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

If you're at all anxious, the city acts out your anxiety for you, leaving you feeling strangely peaceful. — 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 explode. — Kim Gordon

It is fun to smash guitars. — Kim Gordon

I give Iggy credit for deconstructing the very idea of entertainment. — Kim Gordon

Anyone becomes mannered if you think too much about what other people think. — 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

I wasn't very confident about clothes; I was always hunting through racks, never sure what looked right. It can be like that again when you're older. — Kim Gordon

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

An unending kiss--that's all we ever wanted to feel when we paid to hear someone play. — 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 it. — Kim Gordon

I just happened to start playing music for the conceptual ideas. — Kim Gordon

I'm kind of quoting Thurston [Moore] and Kim [Gordon] in saying that about not being great with addicts, because they are the ones who said it to me. — Michael Stipe

Cockroaches were a problem, too, and to me the people who invented Combat, the little black roach-trapping contraption, are urban folk heroes. — 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 the complexity of things. — Kim Gordon

I don't really feel comfortable anywhere except when I'm working alone at home. It's exhausting to be out around people. — Kim Gordon

side. He began ranting about the fur coats they — Kim Gordon

Participant Inc. gallery, — Kim Gordon

I watch 'Buffy the Vampire Slayer' with my daughter. We're very into Buffy and Buffy's friends. — Kim Gordon

Everything people call fabulous or amazing lasts for about ten minutes before the culture moves on to the next thing. — Kim Gordon

The only really good performance is the one where you make yourself vulnerable, while pushing beyond your familiar comfort zone. — Kim Gordon

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

We'd have to start wearing long wigs and eye shadow and glitter pants." "Okay, okay, well, that's life, — Kim Gordon

Hold me tight, down on my knees, so I don't go burning 'cross the breeze. — Kim Gordon

It's really hard for me to sing and play bass. — Kim Gordon

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

I can't think about whether I'll disappoint Sonic Youth fans. It's not like I want people to be disappointed, but I just can't control that. — Kim Gordon

But everything has been so gradual that it's sort of all come from, just hard work and basically being at it. — Kim Gordon

[...] to overcome my own hypersensitivity, I had no choice but to turn fearless. — Kim Gordon

I like the adrenaline of playing improv - it makes me feel really calm. — Kim Gordon

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

I feel most free onstage. The audience, it's an abstraction. You don't really see anyone out there, but you feel the audience inside you. — Kim Gordon

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

still carry around with me a battle between working conceptually - art based on some overriding idea - and my pure carnal sensory love of materials. — Kim Gordon

I love the way Lady Gaga finds humour in fashion, but it's still very stylised. — Kim Gordon

Clothes are signifiers and symbols of how people communicate with each other. — Kim Gordon

No one talks about woman power. The Spice Girls - they're masquerading as little girls. It's repulsive. — Kim Gordon

I never thought about doing anything other than making art. — 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

You can't be a strong or cool woman and be represented except in a harsh way, looking mean and cold and hard. It's like reverse sexism. — Kim Gordon

If you don't fit into a certain type, there's a lot of strength in just being who you are. — Kim Gordon

I'm a relatively shy person, but I love being challenged and putting myself in positions that are scary. — Kim Gordon

I mean, I don't even think of myself as a musician, really. — Kim Gordon

People pay to see others believe in themselves. — Kim Gordon

Joy Division was scheduled to play at Tier 3, but Ian Curtis killed himself a week before the gig. — 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 able to still play it. — Kim Gordon

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

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

I've always felt uncomfortable giving people what they want or expect. — Kim Gordon

The last two records I liked playing a lot. — Kim Gordon

Women are natural anarchists. — Kim Gordon

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

It's amazing how many things you can do when you're just pretending. — Kim Gordon

. . . when my family headed out west, like any birth canal Rochester was forgotten. — Kim Gordon

I like being in a weak position, and making it strong. — Kim Gordon

Marriage is a long conversation, someone once said, and maybe so is a rock band's life. A few minutes later, both were done. — Kim Gordon

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

I try not to think too much about what the audience is thinking and what they think I should do. — Kim Gordon

. . . for me the page, the gallery, the stage became the only places my emotions could be expressed and acted out comfortably. — Kim Gordon

...one of those mutual I-can-tell-you-are-a-super-sensitive-and-emotional-person-too sorts of connections. — Kim Gordon

I still don't really feel like a bass player. — 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

I always wanted to rebel. — Kim Gordon

Klamath was all about fishing and socializing and cooking and eating, and waking up the next day to start over again. — Kim Gordon

Someone once wrote that in between the lives we lead and the lives we fantasize about living is the place in our heads where most of us actually live. — Kim Gordon

Unless you're singing something that's kind of in rhythm with the bass, the melodies, it's just difficult. — Kim Gordon