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
Everyone’s so interior now, they’re not really looking around them. They’re on their phones. – Kim Gordon
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. – 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
In rock music, people have certain assumptions that it makes people more enlightened, and it really doesn’t. – 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 self-conscious if I did. Anyone becomes mannered if you think too much about what other people think. – 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. When that’s broken, it’s impossible to continue. – Kim Gordon
I don’t have any desire to do something that sounds explicitly rock. Like, I don’t have a burning need to be a rock musician. I feel like I’ve taken that as far as I can take it, for me. – 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 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. – 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
Part of my desire to play music was because I wanted to escape the art world and the politics of it; the petty gossip-y art world. But you know, I feel like they’re both equal forms of expression. – Kim Gordon
Working on art, as opposed to being in a constant collaborative state, as in a band, is something that I’ve always done – to a smaller degree, but it always remained a part of my integral self. – 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 think who could be a fifth member. – Kim Gordon
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. – Kim Gordon
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 promote myself because I find that it gets kind of boring. There should just be a whole different site for that. Because it’s just kind of boring and gross to use it just self-promotion. – 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 that she knows so many girls who want to play music. And I see it more as a teen activity than I do as going into music. – Kim Gordon