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

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Kim Gordon
Age: 71
Born: 1953
Born: April 28
Actor
Fashion Designer
Guitarist
Musician
Singer
Singer-Songwriter
Songwriter
Visual Artist
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Rochester
New York
Kim Althea Gordon
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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.
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People pay to see others believe in themselves.
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If you don't fit into a certain type, there's a lot of strength in just being who you are.
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Anyone becomes mannered if you think too much about what other people think
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I just think that playing bass, like punk rock bass with a pick, wasn't meant to be done for 25 years.
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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.
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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.
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My parents lived by Rancho Park. And my mom, later in life, got into playing golf. She and her male cronies would get up at five in the morning and sneak onto the back nine. I kind of just started getting into it. For a long time I was really puzzled by why people liked it.
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Well, it was kind of accidental that Jim started playing with us, although it wasn't sudden... we hadn't really looked around to think who could be a fifth member.
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Unless you're singing something that's kind of in rhythm with the bass, the melodies, it's just difficult.
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You can't be a strong or cool woman and be represented except in a harsh way, looking mean and cold and hard. It's like reverse sexism.
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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.
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Everyone's so interior now, they're not really looking around them. They're on their phones.
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I really want to start playing basketball. Basketball and ping-pong are my two forms of exercise.
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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.
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There's only so many small shows you can do. A lot of the smaller things are more side project things. Not everything is appropriate for Sonic Youth to do.
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I always wanted to rebel.
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I tend to want to listen to melancholy music, but sometimes if you're feeling too sad, you can't.
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For me performing has a lot to do with being fearless.
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Fashion, at modern time, was actually a way for women to go out in the world. There was one painting of a woman sitting at a café, drinking a beer by herself and kind of pretending to read but really watching people, that sort of thing. It fascinated me.
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