A biography for Kim Gordonhasn’t been written yet.
“I really want to start playing basketball. I actually bought a new basketball.”
“I don't really feel comfortable anywhere except when I'm working alone at home. It's exhausting to be out around people.”
“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.”
“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.”
“In rock music, people have certain assumptions that it makes people more enlightened, and it really doesn't.”
“L.A. prides itself on newness or being the last frontier or just not liking old things and tearing them down to build new things. But Malibu history is interesting to me. My mom's family was one of the early families in California, so there's history going back to the 1840s or '50s.”
“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.”
“I would be too self-conscious if I just thought of writing lyrics for a song. I have to trick myself into doing it.”
“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.”
“. . . when my family headed out west, like any birth canal Rochester was forgotten.”
“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.”
“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.”
“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.”
“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.”
“It is fun to smash guitars.”
“Families are like little villages. You know where everything is, you know how everything works, your identity is fixed, and you can't really leave, or connect with anything or anybody outside, until your physically no longer there.”
“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.”
“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.”
“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.”
“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, the melodies, it's just difficult.”