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" I just happened to start playing music for the conceptual ideas. "
Kim Gordon
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" 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?' "
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" 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. "
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