I found that the more truthful and vulnerable I was, the more empowering it was for me.
I’m a bit of an alchemist sorceress. I’ve collected probably 1500 oils from around the planet over the last ten years. I’m kind of obsessed with the sensuality of it.
We’re taught to be ashamed of confusion, anger, fear and sadness, and to me they’re of equal value to happiness, excitement and inspiration.
I see my body as an instrument, rather than an ornament.
There is no better feeling than when you write something you know is a piece of you and that, at some point, is going to communicate with someone else.
I’m sorry to myself, for treating me worse than I would anybody else.
When I’m in pain and grief and despair, my throat is clenched and my heart hurts.
We’ll love you just the way you are if you’re perfect.
Life has a funny way of helping you out when you think that everything’s gone wrong.
The whole idea of emotions being something we can’t escape as humans, but that deep suffering that comes from resisting them, we can move out of that just by not resisting anymore. But it takes a really brave warrior soul to sit there in these emotions that admittedly don’t feel good in the body.
With songwriting I spend a lot of time living life, accruing all these experiences, journaling, and then by the time I get to the studio I’m teeming with the drive to write.
I think there is no better way to invite a human being to view their body differently than by inviting them to be an athlete, by revering one’s body as an instrument rather than just an ornament.
A brave action is often followed by grief. Do not let my resistance to grief stop the brave action.
It’s like 10,000 spoons, when all you need is a knife.
Well, as a kid I did not get Shakespeare. I just never understood it.
The ego is a fascinating monster.
I don’t want to be your other half. I believe that one and one make two.
Anytime there’s separatism going on. It happens all the time, because the illusion before us is that we are separate. It gives us this sense of egoic identity, which is lovely in its own way.
The more vulnerable and the more confused the song is, the equal and opposite effect is how I feel after having written it.
Anything I do has to be directly related to my music. If it isn’t, I don’t really see a point to it.