Women are natural anarchists… — Kim Gordon

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

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. — Kim Gordon

No one talks about woman power. The Spice Girls–they’re masquerading as little girls. It’s repulsive. — Kim Gordon

At the end of the day, women are expected to hold up the world, not annihilate it. — Kim Gordon

Women make natural anarchists and revolutionaries, because they’ve always been second–class citizens, kinda having had to claw their way up. — Kim Gordon

I mean, who made up all the rules in the culture? Men–white male corporate society. So why wouldnt a woman want to rebel against that? — Kim Gordon

Many designers are gay men making clothes for women. Sometimes I think fashion is more of a conversation between men than it is for women. — Kim Gordon

I really want to start playing basketball. I actually bought a new basketball. — Kim Gordon

The last two records I liked playing a lot. — Kim Gordon

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. — Kim Gordon

I just happened to start playing music for the conceptual ideas. — Kim Gordon

I just think that playing bass, like punk rock bass with a pick, wasn’t meant to be done for 25 years. — Kim Gordon

I really want to start playing basketball. Basketball and ping–pong are my two forms of exercise. — Kim Gordon

I like the adrenaline of playing improv–it makes me feel really calm. — Kim Gordon

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

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. — Kim Gordon

For me performing has a lot to do with being fearless. — Kim Gordon

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. — Kim Gordon

I don’t really feel comfortable anywhere except when I’m working alone at home. It’s exhausting to be out around people. — Kim Gordon

People pay to see others believe in themselves. — Kim Gordon

L.a. prides itself on newness or being the last frontier or just not liking old things and tearing them down to build new things. — Kim Gordon

Rap music is really good when you’re traumatized. — Kim Gordon

There’s the added element of adrenaline if you’re performing. You’re aware of spatial relationships and the music. — Kim Gordon

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

I tend to want to listen to melancholy music, but sometimes if you’re feeling too sad, you can’t. — Kim Gordon

I always felt like an outsider to the music world in a certain way. There was so much less of an art culture in L.A.–and particularly in the South Bay. — Kim Gordon

I wanted deliverance, the loss of myself. The capacity to be inside that music. It was the same power and sensation you feel when a wave takes you up and pushes you somewhere else. — Kim Gordon

There is something wonderful about singing and writing music, I think there is something special about creativity and the ability humans have in that area. — Kim Gordon

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. — Kim Gordon

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. — Kim Gordon

But everything has been so gradual that it’s sort of all come from, just hard work and basically being at it. — Kim Gordon

Political art never goes away. I started watching The West Wing show recently and I’m actually learning about how the government works in a way. It’s kind of embarrassing. — Kim Gordon

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. — Kim Gordon

Recently some work I made could be seen as feminist art or work that relates to the body. That’s just what I’m feeling–like it needs to be done. — Kim Gordon

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. — Kim Gordon

Anyone becomes mannered if you think too much about what other people think. — Kim Gordon

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. — Kim Gordon

You know, we have our own audience, and it’s not like–they just know we’re not going to do certain things. — Kim Gordon

I try not to think too much about what the audience is thinking and what they think I should do. — Kim Gordon

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. — Kim Gordon

The girl anchors the stage, sucks in the male gaze, and, depending on who she is, throws her own gaze back out into the audience. — Kim Gordon