Quotes from Kim Gordon

As mulheres são anarquistas e revolucionárias por natureza.

Maskenfreiheit. It means "the freedom conferred by masks.

I give Iggy credit for deconstructing the very idea of entertainment.

The image a lot of people have of me as detached, impassive, or remote is a persona that comes from years of being teased for every feeling I ever expressed.

Someone once wrote that in between the lives we lead and the lives we fantasize about living is the place in our heads where most of us actually live." "The best kind of music comes when you're being intuitive, unconscious of your body, in some ways losing your mind: the Body/Head dynamic.

that's why for me the page, the gallery, and the stage became the only places my emotions could be expressed and acted out comfortably. These were the venues where I could exhibit sexuality, anger, a lack of concern for what people thought.

for me the page, the gallery, the stage became the only places my emotions could be expressed and acted out comfortably.

My parents were from a generation where you tended to your own problems, one where psychotherapy was an indulgence. They both came from families where you kept your problems to yourself and got on with life. If Keller was starting to act a little out of the ordinary, wasn't everybody trying to quote-unquote find themselves in Southern California in the early seventies? Not to mention that psychiatry had a cuckoo's-nest edge of paranoia about it.

Neil Young once said that it's more about having an authentic voice than a good voice, though of course Neil has a great voice.

It's worth remembering that from the beginning, rock and roll was never based in musical training or technique, just as punk rock was never about being a good musician and No Wave was at its core about pure expression. Punk rock changed everything, including the whole idea of being a "rock star.

For the English, rock and roll has a lot to do with climbing over that country's class structure, kicking out the bars of their birth.

Maybe for a performer that's what a stage becomes: a space you can fill up with what can't be expressed or gotten anywhere else.

Klamath was all about fishing and socializing and cooking and eating, and waking up the next day to start over again.

one of those mutual I-can-tell-you-are-a-super-sensitive-and-emotional-person-too sorts of connections.

My identity was straightforward: I had made art since I was five years old, and aside from dance, art was the only thing that interested me. If that didn't fit into the conventions of the day, who cared?

Families are like little villages. You know where everything is, you know how everything works, your identity is fixed, and you can't really leave, or connect with anything or anybody outside, until you're physically no longer there.

Our school was a microcosm of the world.

Joy Division was scheduled to play at Tier 3, but Ian Curtis killed himself a week before the gig.

Cockroaches were a problem, too, and to me the people who invented Combat, the little black roach-trapping contraption, are urban folk heroes.

practice of female members dancing themselves into a frenzied, almost orgasmic hysteria. The juxtaposition of this with what were otherwise very conservative beliefs and rituals was bizarre to him. Dan wondered what rock-and-roll music and the Shaker sect had in common.

One day I picked up the phone to hear a middle-aged female voice asking if there were "any green Salles" left; she wanted to match Salle's art to the color scheme of her living room furniture. It's all such a joke,

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

SOMETIMES I THINK we know on some level the person we're going to be in our life, that if we pay attention, we can piece out that information.

the radical is far more interesting when it looks benign and ordinary on the outside.