Kim Gordon Quotes
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I was very aware of performers who have a persona, whether it's Siouxsie Sioux or Patti Smith or Lydia Lunch, and I'm just this middle-class girl coming from a more conventional upbringing, this California person. But in a way I felt like it's important to represent the normal.
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I mean, most of it is probably more obscure and just more noisy than either of those two bands, but Thurston has stuff all the time that he's involved with that is fairly obscure and experimental.
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I like that show 'Ray Donovan' - I'm obsessed with that. He's in Hollywood, he's some kind of a fixer, but he's also kind of a thug. And 'Scandal,' the D.C. one with Kerry Washington.
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Sometimes I think fashion is more of a conversation between men than it is for women.
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In the early eighties, there were a lot of artists involved with the music scene. All those young artists, before their careers took off, were into music. Robert Longo used to play some guitar. He had a band for a while. Basquiat had a band. I mean, people were always trying to mix music and art - in fact, I'm guilty of it myself.
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It's amazing how many things you can do when you're just pretending.
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I've never been good with structure - doing assignments for the sake of them or doing things I'm supposed to do.
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But everything has been so gradual that it's sort of all come from, just hard work and basically being at it.
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I went to art school, and I wanted to be an artist since I was 5. I basically moved to New York to do art, and I just sort of fell into doing music at an early age.
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I don't really feel comfortable anywhere except when I'm working alone at home. It's exhausting to be out around people.
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I was kind of freaked out by the art world in the 1980s. Just the money thing. All the competition over artists.
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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.
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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.
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And then, I was thinking of doing a record just like starting with voice, because I did this one song that was just kind of a cappella, and I did it for this art piece I did where people could come and play music to go with a voice.
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I just think that playing bass, like punk rock bass with a pick, wasn't meant to be done for 25 years.
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Unless you're singing something that's kind of in rhythm with the bass, the melodies, it's just difficult.
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I love Northampton. As exciting and glamorous as New York can be, I'm always really relieved to get back there.
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Rap music is really good when you're traumatized.
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Everyone's so interior now, they're not really looking around them. They're on their phones.
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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 needing to please, which I do think girls and women feel more than men.
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I am basically a shy person, so performing sometimes helps me focus - having all those people concentrate their attention on you. I don't see it so much as becoming another person onstage; it's more exploring a different side of your personality.
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A friend of mine introduced me to Thurston Moore because she thought I would like him. He was playing with the tallest band in the world, the Coachmen. They were sort of like Talking Heads, jangly guitar, Feelies guitar. Anyway, it was love at first sight. His band broke up that night. And we started playing.
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There's only so many small shows you can do. A lot of the smaller things are more side project things. Not everything is appropriate for Sonic Youth to do.
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I'm a relatively shy person, but I love being challenged and putting myself in positions that are scary.