Latest Kim Gordon Quotes from Interviews

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• 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.

  Kim Gordon

  Mom, Morning, Golf

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• I really want to start playing basketball. Basketball and ping-pong are my two forms of exercise.

  Kim Gordon

  Basketball, Exercise

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• I always think of baseball as so existential. Like, you're just out there in a field, in a big expanse of green grass.

  Kim Gordon

  Baseball, Thinking, Existential

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• 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

  Art, Culture, World

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• Fashion, at modern time, was actually a way for women to go out in the world. There was one painting of a woman sitting at a café, drinking a beer by herself and kind of pretending to read but really watching people, that sort of thing. It fascinated me.

  Kim Gordon

  Fashion, Drinking, Beer

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• I really like Olivier Assayas filmmaking. He always has this global - economy thing going on.

  Kim Gordon

  Economy, Filmmaking

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• 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

  Art, Feminist, Feelings

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• 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

  Art, Political, Kind

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• Twitter reminds me of an era in French literature - Emile Zola and Honoré de Balzac - and the beginning of modernity and gossip. They had these fashion magazines of the time on display with all of the Emile Zola references.

  Kim Gordon

  Fashion, Gossip, Literature

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• Malibu history is interesting to me. My mom's family was one of the early families in California, so there's history going back to the 1840s or '50s. They came over in the Gold Rush, actually. I have all this guilt about raising my daughter in the East. Coco's very anti-California. It's her way of rebelling.

  Kim Gordon

  Daughter, Interesting, Guilt

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• 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

  Pride, Newness

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• I'm really nostalgic for Malibu area because I've spent so much time there. People don't think of California as having a history.

  Kim Gordon

  Thinking, People, Nostalgic

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• I was talking to somebody about the L.A. hardcore scene, and they were saying that it was hard for them to picture punk rock at the beach. Like, the aesthetic didn't mix or something - black forms in the sand.

  Kim Gordon

  Beach, Black, Punk

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• I tend to want to listen to melancholy music, but sometimes if you're feeling too sad, you can't.

  Kim Gordon

  Feelings, Want, Sometimes

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• I'm aware of how pop culture really infiltrates your expectations in a way that even if you think you're savvy about pop culture, it's so hard not to have these expectations of what a relationship should be. So I constantly feel like I have to bat those expectations down.

  Kim Gordon

  Thinking, Expectations, Bats

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• The love for a child is more an unconditional sort of love ... Although some parents are really narcissistic. In general, I think there is an expectation that love will be unconditional, but obviously it's not - even after living with someone for years.

  Kim Gordon

  Children, Thinking, Years

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• I think of myself as unconventional. 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.

  Kim Gordon

  Thinking, Unconventional, Recognition

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• 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

  Girl, Motherhood, Men

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• Clothes are signifiers and symbols of how people communicate with each other.

  Kim Gordon

  Clothes, People, Communicate

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• The clothes in themselves are empty. But what they throw off and what clothes mean as signifiers is incredibly interesting - to see what people do with it. That's more interesting to me than flipping through a magazine or seeing the fall look.

  Kim Gordon

  Fall, Mean, Clothes

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• 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

  Fashion, Gay, Men

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• There's the added element of adrenaline if you're performing. You're aware of spatial relationships and the music.

  Kim Gordon

  Elements, Spatial, Adrenaline

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com