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" In a lot of the art world, you have to present yourself as you know what you're doing at a young age. Music gave me another outlet. The 'no wave' bands were such an inspiration; it felt so free - once you start doing it, it's hard to stop. But I can't get away from art. It comes back around. I wouldn't be true to myself if I didn't pursue it. "

Kim Gordon

Myself

World

" 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. "

" Rap music is really good when you're traumatized. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

Kim Gordon

Rock

People

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

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

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

" I mean, most of it is probably more obscure and just more noisy than either of those two bands, but Thurston has stuff all the time that he's involved with that is fairly obscure and experimental. "

Kim Gordon

Involved

Mean

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

" I just happened to start playing music for the conceptual ideas. "

" It's hard to say when the life of a band starts and stops... but playing music together is an act of trust. When that's broken, it's impossible to continue. "

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

" I grew up listening to John Coltrane and jazz, so they were subtle influences. I sometimes think about doing some kind of weird jazz record, but I don't know... It's on my list of things to do. I don't want to have to then go promote it. "

Kim Gordon

Think

Doing

" 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. "

" I watch 'Buffy the Vampire Slayer' with my daughter. We're very into Buffy and Buffy's friends. "

" I like the adrenaline of playing improv - it makes me feel really calm. "

Kim Gordon

Improv

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I can't think about whether I'll disappoint Sonic Youth fans. It's not like I want people to be disappointed, but I just can't control that. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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 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 don't really feel comfortable anywhere except when I'm working alone at home. It's exhausting to be out around people. "

" The last two records I liked playing a lot. "

" 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. "