Kim Gordon Quotes

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

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

People pay to see others believe in themselves.

When Punk Rock happened, it created an opening in the culture... it made it ok to think you could play music, even though you had no musical training.

When I was young, there was never any space for me to get attention of my own that wasn't negative. Art, and the practice of making art, was the only space that was mine alone, where I could be anyone and do anything, where just by using my head and my hands I could cry, or laugh, or get pissed off.

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.

Women are natural anarchists...

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

I mean, who made up all the rules in the culture? Men-white male corporate society. So why wouldnt a woman want to rebel against that?

I was talking to somebody about the L.A. hardcore scene, and they were saying that it was hard for them to picture punk rock at the beach. Like, the aesthetic didn't mix or something - black forms in the sand.

I always wanted to rebel.

There is something wonderful about singing and writing music, I think there is something special about creativity and the ability humans have in that area.

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

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

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

The clothes in themselves are empty. But what they throw off and what clothes mean as signifiers is incredibly interesting - to see what people do with it. That's more interesting to me than flipping through a magazine or seeing the fall look.

Rap music is really good when you're traumatized.

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

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

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.

Culturally we don't allow women to be as free as they would like, because that is frightening. We either shun those women or deem them crazy… But being that woman who pushes the boundaries means you also bring in less desirable aspects of yourself. At the end of the day, women are expected to hold up the world, not annihilate it.

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

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

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

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