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" 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
Art
Sexy
Painting
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" I still don't really feel like a bass player. "
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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" A friend of mine introduced me to Thurston Moore because she thought I would like him. He was playing with the tallest band in the world, the Coachmen. They were sort of like Talking Heads, jangly guitar, Feelies guitar. Anyway, it was love at first sight. His band broke up that night. And we started playing. "
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Me
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" 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. "
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" I never thought about doing anything other than making art. "
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" The last two records I liked playing a lot. "
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Last
Liked
" I watch 'Buffy the Vampire Slayer' with my daughter. We're very into Buffy and Buffy's friends. "
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" I just happened to start playing music for the conceptual ideas. "
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" 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? "
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Men
Society
" I'll leave a store if I hate the music. If it's just, like, techno, I feel like my brain is going to explode. "
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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. "
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Clothes
" 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. "
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World
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" 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. "
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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. "
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Men
Women
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" I really want to start playing basketball. I actually bought a new basketball. "
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Playing
Start
" It's amazing how many things you can do when you're just pretending. "
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Amazing
You
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" 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. "
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Myself
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" Unless you're singing something that's kind of in rhythm with the bass, the melodies, it's just difficult. "
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Kind
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" I went to art school, and I wanted to be an artist since I was 5. I basically moved to New York to do art, and I just sort of fell into doing music at an early age. "
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" I have a really hard time writing my own lyrics for this record, because one, I had to write so many and also I was kind of perplexed by the idea of how I was going to sing and play... because at that time, we hadn't really thought about asking someone else. "
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" Rap music is really good when you're traumatized. "
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" I don't really feel comfortable anywhere except when I'm working alone at home. It's exhausting to be out around people. "
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Alone
" I don't see myself as a rock star. I don't see myself in that way. I'm interested in work that offers some sort of critical dialogue. "
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Think
Even
" I try not to think too much about what the audience is thinking and what they think I should do. I'd be self-conscious if I did. Anyone becomes mannered if you think too much about what other people think. "
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