Quotes from Kim Gordon

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.

It's amazing how many things you can do when you're just pretending.

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. But 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.

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.

I see it as more of a teenage activity than, you know, she's only 11, but you know, I think it's great that she knows so many girls who want to play music. And I see it more as a teen activity than I do as going into music.

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.

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 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.

If you don't fit into a certain type, there's a lot of strength in just being who you are.

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

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

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?

Rap music is really good when you're traumatized.

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

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.

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.

After you've graduated, you're supposed to be an adult and go out into the world, and you're still not formed. It's an interesting... horrible, horrible time.

I love Northampton. As exciting and glamorous as New York can be, I'm always really relieved to get back there.

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

I'm a relatively shy person, but I love being challenged and putting myself in positions that are scary.

I am basically a shy person, so performing sometimes helps me focus - having all those people concentrate their attention on you. I don't see it so much as becoming another person onstage; it's more exploring a different side of your personality.

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.

It's hard to write about a love story with a broken heart.