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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.
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
Rap music is really good when you're traumatized.
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
My parents lived by Rancho Park. And my mom, later in life, got into playing golf. She and her male cronies would get up at five in the morning and sneak onto the back nine. I kind of just started getting into it. For a long time I was really puzzled by why people liked it.
Kim Gordon
It was the tip of the iceberg...There's some unseen wall of faceless men that I have to climb over...as if on a mission.
Kim Gordon
I like a certain amount of tension in music...I like the kind of music that maybe makes you think about the status quo.
Kim Gordon
I never think of myself as famous anyway, like, if anything, it's barely famous.
Kim Gordon
I don't wanna think that I'm influential or an icon or blah blah blah blah...Ultimately, I feel most confident when I'm just working. Thinking about ideas. That's how I'm most comfortable. Or performing in a group situation.
Kim Gordon
I mean, I don't even think of myself as a musician, really.
Kim Gordon
Because our daughters have school and it's just such a hassle going down to New York all the time, we can really only go on the weekends, we kind of... Steve came up here and worked out stuff for the second half of the record.
Kim Gordon
I still don't really feel like a bass player.
Kim Gordon
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
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.
Kim Gordon
Anyone becomes mannered if you think too much about what other people think.
Kim Gordon
I just happened to start playing music for the conceptual ideas.
Kim Gordon
I try not to think too much about what the audience is thinking and what they think I should do.
Kim Gordon
I think of myself as unconventional, I guess. I maybe always had a problem with authority, like a stubbornness about what's expected - despite wanting to get some recognition through performing - but also not always wanting to do the expected thing.
Kim Gordon
No one talks about woman power. The Spice Girls - they're masquerading as little girls. It's repulsive.
Kim Gordon
Unless you're singing something that's kind of in rhythm with the bass, the melodies, it's just difficult.
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
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
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