Kim Gordon quote: "I never really thought of myself as a musician. I'm not saying Sonic Youth was a conceptual-art project for me, but in a way, it was an extension of Warhol. Instead of making criticism about popular culture, as a lot of artists do, I worked within it to do something."

I watch 'Buffy the Vampire Slayer' with my daughter. We're very into Buffy and Buffy'...
KIM GORDON

And then, I was thinking of doing a record just like starting with voice, because I did this one son...
KIM GORDON

I've never been good with structure - doing assignments for the sake of them or doing things I&#...
KIM GORDON

I still don't really feel like a bass player.
KIM GORDON

You're always going to feel like you're catching up, and part of that is just balancing work...
KIM GORDON

Women make natural anarchists and revolutionaries because they've always been second-class citiz...
KIM GORDON

I never felt like I had anything really figured out. When I was a teenager, it was all about teenage...
KIM GORDON

I'm a slow learner. When people are so talented or facile at picking up an instrument and playin...
KIM GORDON

I like that show 'Ray Donovan' - I'm obsessed with that. He's in Hollywood, he's...
KIM GORDON

L.A. prides itself on newness or being the last frontier or just not liking old things and tearing t...
KIM GORDON

I grew up listening to John Coltrane and jazz, so they were subtle influences. I sometimes think abo...
KIM GORDON

I don't even know if I always entirely get what I'm trying to say right away with lyrics. I ...
KIM GORDON

No one talks about woman power. The Spice Girls - they're masquerading as little girls. It's...
KIM GORDON

A friend of mine introduced me to Thurston Moore because she thought I would like him. He was playin...
KIM GORDON

In the early eighties, there were a lot of artists involved with the music scene. All those young ar...
KIM GORDON

Hardcore groups were singing songs about Ronald Reagan. I wasn't interested in this and preferred to...
KIM GORDON

I have a really hard time writing my own lyrics for this record, because one, I had to write so many...
KIM GORDON

I'll leave a store if I hate the music. If it's just, like, techno, I feel like my brain is ...
KIM GORDON

I was very aware of performers who have a persona, whether it's Siouxsie Sioux or Patti Smith or...
KIM GORDON

. . . when my family headed out west, like any birth canal Rochester was forgotten.
KIM GORDON

All that young-girl idealism is someone else's now.
KIM GORDON

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

For me performing has a lot to do with being fearless.
KIM GORDON

I can't think about whether I'll disappoint Sonic Youth fans. It's not like I want peopl...
KIM GORDON

I think that certainly, whenever you have a new band, the first record always has a certain energy t...
KIM GORDON

There's only so many small shows you can do. A lot of the smaller things are more side project t...
KIM GORDON

Sonic Youth, for better or worse, is/was a machine that carried me along through pregnancy, motherho...
KIM GORDON

I think of myself as unconventional, I guess. I maybe always had a problem with authority, like a st...
KIM GORDON

I'm a relatively shy person, but I love being challenged and putting myself in positions that ar...
KIM GORDON

Rap music is really good when you're traumatized.
KIM GORDON

A lot of people let me down... A lot of people I thought were my friends turned on me.
LIL' KIM

Today begins a new saga in my life which I expect to strengthen me and allow me time for reflection....
LIL' KIM

My fan mail is what keeps me going.
LIL' KIM

It was a very emotional dinner... Everyone shared personal stories about her and gave her words of e...
LIL' KIM

I think people have a misconception of me, period. My life has been a whirlwind sometimes, but it...
LIL' KIM

I love doing things people don't expect.
LIL' KIM

I really want people to understand that nobody is perfect and that things happen in life beyond our ...
LIL' KIM

I haven't had sex in eight months. To be honest, I now prefer to go bowling.
LIL' KIM

From being in the industry as a teenager, I'm so used to getting makeup done all day.
LIL' KIM

My love for the female hip hop movement has always been genuine.
LIL' KIM

I'm blessed enough to been in the game for a while and still have my beautiful fans and still ha...
LIL' KIM

I always go to church on Sundays and Bible study on Tuesdays.
LIL' KIM

Lil' Kim is my stage name and a character I use when I'm out working my livelihood.
LIL' KIM

I'm a girly girl. I'm strong, but I'm very timid. Very dainty.
LIL' KIM

I love spending time with my dog, my niece and my family. I'm very family-oriented.
LIL' KIM

All my life, men have told me I wasn't pretty enough - even the men I was dating. And I'd be...
LIL' KIM

Money talks. This is the thing, at the end of the day, I do what I have to do, and I'mma keep do...
LIL' KIM

I like bowling. I suck at it, but I like it. You know what's so funny? I have days when I'm ...
LIL' KIM

I feel there are two people inside me - me and my intuition. If I go against her, she'll screw m...
KIM BASINGER

I just thank God that I didn't grow up with so much money or privilege because you had to create...
KIM BASINGER

I'm very good about eating breakfast, lunch and dinner.
YUNJIN KIM

I like to do Pilates.
YUNJIN KIM

I'm not really into weight training.
YUNJIN KIM

You have to treat Hollywood like it's your boyfriend - he's there all the time.
YUNJIN KIM

I grew up in New York.
YUNJIN KIM

If it's nice out, I swim pretty much every day for about half an hour. I have a great pool; it&#...
YUNJIN KIM

I love nature.
YUNJIN KIM

I know when I was growing up in New York, whenever I turned on the television, I never saw a face th...
YUNJIN KIM

Strive for continuous improvement, instead of perfection.
KIM COLLINS

I think you have different soulmates throughout your life.
KIM KARDASHIAN

My career is based on openness and honesty.
KIM KARDASHIAN

I play into the perception of me, but it's not really me.
KIM KARDASHIAN

Personally, I've always loved the curvy look.
KIM KARDASHIAN

I didn't love school.
KIM KARDASHIAN

I am fascinated by crime scene investigating. I swear, I wish I was a crime scene investigator somet...
KIM KARDASHIAN

You can't really have like high end designers for everything.
KIM KARDASHIAN

I'm totally growing up.
KIM KARDASHIAN

I love to eat - Kit Kats or cookies-and-cream ice cream. I need sugar like five times a day.
KIM KARDASHIAN

When there's so many haters and negative things, I really don't care.
KIM KARDASHIAN

People don't understand the pressure on me to look perfect.
KIM KARDASHIAN

I'm not a pirate. I'm an innovator.
KIM DOTCOM

But this is Miami, you can't come to Miami and not show any skin. You gotta show something. If y...
LIL' KIM

My tears of love are a waste of time if I turn away
KIM WILDE

I've always been a businesswoman.
KIM KARDASHIAN

I'm a very determined businesswoman... I've got lots of things to do, and I don't have t...
KIM BASINGER

If you create something, you don't want someone else to go and profit from it; you have your rig...
KIM DOTCOM

There is no greater honour than to serve Canadians.
KIM CAMPBELL

Canadians want to see real hope restored, not false hopes raised.
KIM CAMPBELL

I always thought of myself as more American than Americans when I was living in Germany, because I a...
KIM DOTCOM

I think any girl who comes to Hollywood with sex symbol or bombshell hanging over her has a rough ro...
KIM BASINGER

I am pretty honest about a lot of things that young girls question, like their body image.
KIM KARDASHIAN

I feel I disappoint people when I am not 'Samantha.' They seem surprised when I don't ha...
KIM CATTRALL

Botox to me is not surgery.
KIM KARDASHIAN

You have to be desirable. And that's why so many woman of my age or even younger are pushed to B...
KIM CATTRALL

I'm totally not against plastic surgery. I've tried Botox before. That's the only thing ...
KIM KARDASHIAN

I've learned that I can't have a packed work schedule and a packed social schedule and a pac...
KIM CATTRALL

Sometimes, I don't even want to put on makeup. And sometimes, I feel so unattractive and blah.
LIL' KIM

She concedes that she's the one she pleases.
KIM CARNES

The British have been more up for it than the Americans were, particularly with respect to nudity in...
KIM CATTRALL

Imagination helps me to become part of that journey that I'm going through in font of the camera, or...
KIM CATTRALL

I think the wonderful thing about doing theater is that it's more of an actor's medium. I think that...
KIM CATTRALL

I don't have time to be classified as difficult, and I don't have time to care.
KIM BASINGER

If you stick with a vision, it might not all work, but some of it will be absolute genius. To me, 15...
KIM CATTRALL

I work in a strange business, and trust is a word that's not even in the vocabulary.
KIM BASINGER

For every answer, I like to bring up a question. Maybe I'm related to Alfred Hitchcock or maybe ...
KIM NOVAK

The thing I loved about Alfred Hitchcock is that he left a lot of open ends there, a lot of clues th...
KIM NOVAK

Governments allocate enormous resources for social programs. And it is true that for many years we h...
KIM CAMPBELL

I'm an entrepreneur. 'Ambitious' is my middle name.
KIM KARDASHIAN

Tennessee Williams was so adept at portraying characters who are both fallible and vulnerable. Women...
KIM CATTRALL

My family was going back to England to visit my mother's grandmother, who was very ill. We went ...
KIM CATTRALL

I always talk to my students about the need to write for the joy of writing. I try to sort of disagg...
KIM EDWARDS

What I wear is a reflection of where I am going and how I am feeling. If I'm in a good mood, it&...
KIM CATTRALL

The streets made me. They stay at me. There's nothing that's gonna take away from my legacy....
LIL' KIM

I've realized that the most important thing I can do to look good is just treat myself well, whe...
KIM CATTRALL

I did a school play when I was 10 where I played a cold germ infecting a whole classroom of kids. Th...
KIM CATTRALL

I am such a sap when it comes to love! I believe in love at first sight all the way. But that's ...
KIM BARNOUIN

I don't even drink! I can't stand the taste of alcohol. Every New Year's Eve I try one d...
KIM KARDASHIAN

I feel lazy when I'm not working. I learned all my business sense from my dad. He always believe...
KIM KARDASHIAN

A supermodel needed to be able to be on 'Sports Illustrated,' to be able to walk runways, to...
KIM ALEXIS

Maybe my fairy tale has a different ending than I dreamed it would. But that's OK.
KIM KARDASHIAN

Obviously, as you grow up, no one's ever 100 percent proud of every decision that they've ma...
KIM KARDASHIAN

Clarity keeps you from boredom.
KIM BASINGER

I think it's because it was an emotional story, and emotions come through much stronger in black...
KIM HUNTER

I love to reinvent myself, and that's because I am a very free person. I do what I feel, and I l...
LIL' KIM

I am definitely the queen. I definitely see myself as the queen.
LIL' KIM

I have an amazing husband who is a strong man of God. He is very dedicated to me and our family.
KIM FIELDS

We always have dinner together as a family - even when our schedules are totally hectic. I inherited...
KIM RAVER

The perfect date for me would be staying at home, making a big picnic in bed, eating Wotsits and coo...
KIM KARDASHIAN

Everyone's been on a ramen noodle diet once or twice.
KIM SHAW

Canada is the homeland of equality, justice and tolerance.
KIM CAMPBELL

We will all, someday, experience death, and become obsolete as a dead leaf falling from a tree, crus...
KIM ELIZABETH

I love when people underestimate me and then become pleasantly surprised.
KIM KARDASHIAN

It's fun to have a partner who understands your life and lets you be you.
KIM KARDASHIAN

I am blessed to have so many great things in my life - family, friends and God. All will be in my th...
LIL' KIM

Many Lexington natives believe they live in a special place, one impossible to leave. I'm not so...
KIM EDWARDS

It's impossible to control the reception of your work - the only thing you can control is the ex...
KIM EDWARDS

People ask me what I do in my spare time, and I look at them blankly, truly believing that I don'...
KIM HARRISON

I would love nothing more than me and my family getting green cards, going to L.A. for a year, sitti...
KIM DOTCOM

I would absolutely characterize myself as ambitious.
KIM KARDASHIAN

You need to be clever to best him. Are you clever, Rachel?”
Oh God. She wants to know if I...
KIM HARRISON

I never really thought of myself as a musician. I'm not saying Sonic Youth was a conceptual-art project for me, but in a way, it was an extension of Warhol. Instead of making criticism about popular culture, as a lot of artists do, I worked within it to do something.

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Kim Gordon

I never really thought of myself as a musician. I'm not saying Sonic Youth was a conceptual-art project for me, but in a way, it was an extension of Warhol. Instead of making criticism about popular culture, as a lot of artists do, I worked within it to do something.

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