No one ever questions the disorder behind her tarantula LA glamour – sociopathy, narcissism – because it’s good rock and roll, good entertainment! I have a low tolerance for manipulative, egomaniacal behaviour, and usually have to remind myself that the person might be mentally ill.

Kim Gordon

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Women make natural anarchists and revolutionaries, because they've always been second-class citizens, kinda having had to claw their way up.

anarchist revolutionary natural

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.

rocks play thinking

If you don't fit into a certain type, there's a lot of strength i... by Kim Gordon

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

just-being type fit

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.

nostalgic people thinking

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.

space hands art

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.

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

People pay to see others believe in themselves.

pay believe people

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.

newness pride

Rap music is really good when you're traumatized. by Kim Gordon

Rap music is really good when you're traumatized.

rap-music rap music-is

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.

gossip fashion literature

Women are natural anarchists... by Kim Gordon

Women are natural anarchists...

anarchist natural

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.

daughter guilt interesting

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?

white men mean

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 mean fall

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

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

broken heart writing

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.

feminist feelings art

Clothes are signifiers and symbols of how people communicate with... by Kim Gordon

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

communicate clothes people

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.

bats expectations thinking

At the end of the day, women are expected to hold up the world, n... by Kim Gordon

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

the-end-of-the-day ends world

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.

political kind art