It’s hard to get hot over a painting; there’s no equivalent for teenage obsessiveness. Art obsession is ideology. Ideology can be made sexy, but it’s easier in music. Kim Gordon Read Quote
Sonic Youth, for better or worse, is/was a machine that carried me along through pregnancy, motherhood, and creative opportunities I never would have achieved on my own. I’m grateful and surprised that we were listened to, loved, ignored, and overrated. Kim Gordon Read Quote
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 Read Quote
Women make natural anarchists and revolutionaries because they’ve always been second-class citizens, kinda having had to claw their way up. I mean, who made up all the rules in the culture? Men – white male corporate society. So why wouldn’t a woman want to rebel against that? Kim Gordon Read Quote
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. Kim Gordon Read Quote
In rock music, people have certain assumptions that it makes people more enlightened, and it really doesn’t. Kim Gordon Read Quote
I’m a slow learner. When people are so talented or facile at picking up an instrument and playing covers, like Yo La Tengo, I admire that. But I could never do that. Kim Gordon Read Quote
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 Read Quote
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 Read Quote
