Everything will be okay. I have a sticker on my laptop that says that.
Just getting older, you stop caring what other people think, but also, you know who you are, and you know what you want.
I don't think I'll ever feel perfectly balanced, but I feel like I'm figuring it out, and I'm surrounded by really wonderful people that want to see me succeed and be happy. Life is wild.
I have a day job Monday to Friday. I work at a record label in Brooklyn called Ba Da Bing. It's a great indie label and I listen to music all day. I meet people online and find out about the cool new music blogs.
I have this red cardigan that my friend Coco gave me that has holes for thumbs. It's my cozy sweater. I wear it a lot.
I'm getting bored performing the same songs over and over. Songwriting comes and goes.
In my teenage years, there was a lot of angst going on.
I'm a really strong person. I've no regrets in my life.
Sometimes music should just be about you sitting on your bedroom floor, or in the back of the car, singing along stupidly. Evan Dando's music was all about that for me.
I'm pursuing a degree in mental health counseling. It'll be a long journey, and I still want to do music and other creative projects.
I have a lot of alter-egos: I would love to be a back-up singer for someone someday. I have an electronic side-project. I have a '90s grunge side project; I have a piano project... I have this industrial, goth-electronic song, super creepy sounding, just really dark and dreary.
Everyone has their down days. Unfortunately, that's when I am the most prolific.
I would love to work with PJ Harvey some day.
I will entertain things that are entertaining and sound interesting and challenge me. But acting just doesn't come second-nature to me.
I go back to things all the time. It's really nice, too, like when I'm going through some kind of a writer's block, and I'm feeling uninspired, I go to some of my oldest songs from over the years and sift through them, and one thing that's very nice is to see how I've grown up a little bit. A little bit.
I hate putting negative energy out into the world. But it's either inside or out. I mean, it's either get an ulcer or have a fight.
I am my therapist, and I analyze what's happening and if I'm being hurt in the process. The result is songs that are very emotional, very deep, although I try to write them generally so they won't alienate the listener.
I'm nervous performing because it's such a weird thing to do, standing on stage demanding people's attention.
I guess I usually write when I'm in a really intense headspace, because it's my form of self-therapy.
I love being domestic: making coffee, just putting on a record, and just sitting, not doing anything. It's so great.
