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" After you've graduated, you're supposed to be an adult and go out into the world, and you're still not formed. It's an interesting... horrible, horrible time. "

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" I wasn't very confident about clothes; I was always hunting through racks, never sure what looked right. It can be like that again when you're older. "

Kim Gordon

Hunting

Confident

Clothes

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

" I never felt like I had anything really figured out. When I was a teenager, it was all about teenagers having an 'identity crisis.' That was the phrase that was used. But in my early 20s, I was still like, 'When am I going to be over that?' "

" I was kind of freaked out by the art world in the 1980s. Just the money thing. All the competition over artists. "

" In the early eighties, there were a lot of artists involved with the music scene. All those young artists, before their careers took off, were into music. Robert Longo used to play some guitar. He had a band for a while. Basquiat had a band. I mean, people were always trying to mix music and art - in fact, I'm guilty of it myself. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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 don't even know if I always entirely get what I'm trying to say right away with lyrics. I like a lot of things that are more subtext. I grew up mishearing lyrics my whole life, but somehow there's so much more, too, that's implied in vocal delivery and the music itself and the gestural quality of it. "

" 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

Need

Rock

" I think that certainly, whenever you have a new band, the first record always has a certain energy to it before you know what you're doing. I think some of the early Sonic Youth stuff was maybe like that. "

" In rock music, people have certain assumptions that it makes people more enlightened, and it really doesn't. "

Kim Gordon

Rock

People

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

" I love the way Lady Gaga finds humour in fashion, but it's still very stylised. "

" Sometimes I think fashion is more of a conversation between men than it is for women. "

" Basketball and ping-pong are my two forms of exercise. "

" But everything has been so gradual that it's sort of all come from, just hard work and basically being at it. "

" I've done art on my own, and I've also collaborated with other people to make art. And collaborating with other people is always interesting because you end up doing things you probably wouldn't do otherwise. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I would be too self-conscious if I just thought of writing lyrics for a song. I have to trick myself into doing it. "

" It's really hard for me to sing and play bass. "

Kim Gordon

Sing

Really

" 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 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I still don't really feel like a bass player. "

" I've never been good with structure - doing assignments for the sake of them or doing things I'm supposed to do. "

" I love Northampton. As exciting and glamorous as New York can be, I'm always really relieved to get back there. "

" I really want to start playing basketball. I actually bought a new basketball. "