Kim Gordon
Kim Gordon
Kim Althea Gordon is an American musician, songwriter, and visual artist. Born in Rochester, New York, Gordon was raised in Los Angeles, California, and studied art at the Otis Art Institute. She later rose to prominence as the bassist, guitarist, and vocalist of the New York City-based alternative rock band Sonic Youth, which she formed with ex-husband Thurston Moore in 1981...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionRock Singer
Date of Birth28 April 1953
CityRochester, NY
CountryUnited States of America
You know, we have our own audience, and it's not like - they just know we're not going to do certain things.
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?
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.
Clothes are signifiers and symbols of how people communicate with each other.
In retrospect, it's ridiculous that anyone saw me as a fashion icon, since all I was trying to do was to dumb down my middle-class look by messing with my hair. Throughout the eighties I was invariably half-sure and half-confident about whatever it was I wore…Still, I've always believed—still do—that the radical is far more interesting when it looks benign and ordinary on the outside.
There's the added element of adrenaline if you're performing. You're aware of spatial relationships and the music.
People pay to see others believe in themselves.
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.
Rap music is really good when you’re traumatized,
If you don't fit into a certain type, there's a lot of strength in just being who you are.
When I was young, there was never any space for me to get attention of my own that wasn't negative. Art, and the practice of making art, was the only space that was mine alone, where I could be anyone and do anything, where just by using my head and my hands I could cry, or laugh, or get pissed off.
I tend to want to listen to melancholy music, but sometimes if you're feeling too sad, you can't.
When Punk Rock happened, it created an opening in the culture... it made it ok to think you could play music, even though you had no musical training.
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.