170 Quotes by Kim Gordon

I think of myself as unconventional. I maybe always had a problem with authority, like a stubbornness about what's expected - despite wanting to get some recognition through performing - but also not always wanting to do the expected thing.

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.

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