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Limited information is available about Jillian Hervey, who was born in June 1989. She is an individual of an unknown profession.

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“That experience of being in the wild in a place where life initially began for all creatures gave me a overwhelming sense of connection.”

Creatures Connections Overwhelming

Author:Jillian Hervey

“Transformation comes in a lot of different forms, but going natural really helped me love myself.”

Different Form Natural Transformation Love Myself

Author:Jillian Hervey

“I've always been an animal lover my entire life.”

Animal Lovers Animal Love Animal Lover

Author:Jillian Hervey

“The freedom I experienced as a dance major in college gave me so much, but the reality of being in school is that you are still forced to work under restrictions.”

Stills Reality School College Majors Restriction

Author:Jillian Hervey

“I was shaped in college into a performance artist. I never really thought of myself as being one singular thing. I think of myself as an artist and I feel no restrictions when it comes to how I want to portray what I want to portray.”

Thinking Want Feels Artist College Performances Restriction

Author:Jillian Hervey

“Sometimes words come easily and sometimes they don't. Most songs take me twenty minutes to write.”

Writing Sometimes Song Minutes Twenties Take Me

Author:Jillian Hervey

“I tend to write about love because I'm always thinking about it. I think a lot though and struggle with overanalyzing. Way over. That's the thing, I feel like I do that a lot and then finally when I stop thinking, that's when it happens.”

Thinking Way Feels Writing Happens Love Is Struggle Always Thinking

Author:Jillian Hervey

“Of course, I'm a dancer. Dancing grabbed me from the start and I have was never afraid to do it. With out dance I wouldn't be singing. I want to expose people to the underground dance scene through music.”

People Want Courses Scene Singing Dancing Dancer

Author:Jillian Hervey

“People just try to put you in a box and I don't see myself in any particular box. I'm making my own box. There's no way I would be able to make the music I'm making without dancing.”

People Way Trying Would Be Able My Own Particular Dancing Boxes

Author:Jillian Hervey

“I'm not looking to be the greatest pop star of all time. I want to be an artist. I want to influence people and I want to get people to think about the world, to think and talk to each other and connect. To challenge one another.”

People Thinking World Want Artist Stars Challenges Influence Pops All Time Pop Stars Influencing People

Author:Jillian Hervey

“This world is going in all sorts of directions, but I think all you can do is get people to think about things in a different way, because sometimes people aren't even thinking.”

People Thinking World Way Different Sometimes Can Do This World Different Ways

Author:Jillian Hervey

“You need to have honest things in the world. Even if people don't understand it, if it's coming from you, that's already important.”

People Ifs World Needs Important Honest

Author:Jillian Hervey

“I prefer to do things by myself, but I always bring in people who inspire me.”

People Inspire

Author:Jillian Hervey

“I've always loved vintage and I never like to have something someone else has.”

Vintage

Author:Jillian Hervey

“I would feel weird having someone style me. It would have to be a collaboration. I've had those experiences and every time it happens I don't feel good. What's the point of putting all this work into something and then when you present it, it's not you?”

Feels Happens Style Feel Good Collaboration

Author:Jillian Hervey

“Once you train you develop your own aesthetic and your confidence. So, I think as I grow I'm learning how to be a singer. I'm training my voice and being on stage and singing and dancing.”

Thinking Grows Voice Stage Singing Training Dancing Train Singers Aesthetic Singing And Dancing

Author:Jillian Hervey

“I'm totally into the emotional aspect of things.”

Emotional Aspect

Author:Jillian Hervey

“[New York] gives you room to be weird; you can be yourself and you can wear whatever you want. No one is really going to judge you because everyone is doing their own thing.”

Want Giving Rooms New York Judging Being Yourself

Author:Jillian Hervey

“Basically, my senior year of high school, I was going to look at prospective colleges and I went to visit Northeastern University because one of my friends was going.”

Years Looks School College High School My Friends University Senior Senior Year

Author:Jillian Hervey

“In New York everyone just kind of knows each other.”

Knows Kind New York

Author:Jillian Hervey

“I was working on a piece for one of the things I was dancing to and I needed to have original music. I didn't know where to begin, I'm so bad at computers, and I remembered that he actually made music. I asked Astro Raw if he'd be interested in scoring and he said yes.”

Ifs Knows Made Said Pieces Needed Computer Originals Dancing Remembered Original Music

Author:Jillian Hervey

“I was curious because I hadn't really known anyone to do just that, so I would stop in on his sessions with his rapper friends, and then one day, I told Astro Raw "I'm looking to sing. He told me to try it out and then we made 'Treat Me Like Fire' and everything started."”

Trying Made Known Fire One Day Treats Curious Rapper Session

Author:Jillian Hervey

“I've always been kind of surrounded by music my whole life, so my earliest memories of it were just hearing it in the house.”

Kind Whole House Memories Hearing Whole Life

Author:Jillian Hervey

“Both of my mom's parents were music teachers, so I was hearing the fundamentals of playing the piano, what notes are, and all those things very early on.”

Parent Teacher Mom Fundamentals Notes My Mom Hearing Piano Music Teacher

Author:Jillian Hervey

“I grew up as a dancer, and music and dance are so closely tied, that in ballet class you're listening to all this classical music, and in modern class you're working with a live drummer. It was something that always made me feel really comfortable and I've had a connection to since the beginning.”

Feels Made Class Modern Listening Grew Comfortable Grew Up Connections Dancer Ballet Tied Classical Music Drummer Music And Dance Ballet Class

Author:Jillian Hervey

“Between my mom and dad, I would hear a lot of Earth, Wind, and Fire. My mom loved Chaka Khan, so that was on in the car a lot.”

Earth Fire Car Wind Mom Dad My Mom Mom And Dad

Author:Jillian Hervey

“Of course the Disney movies, you know all the soundtracks, and anything Gene Kelly and Fred Astaire were doing - Singing in the Rain was one of my favorite musicals I used to watch a lot because my mom came from a theatre background.”

Knows Used Courses Watches Mom Singing Rain My Favorite My Mom Theatre Backgrounds Genes Soundtracks Singing In The Rain

Author:Jillian Hervey

“I think just being a '90s kid - I was not a Backstreet Boys girl, I was definitely into NSYNC.”

Thinking Kids Girl Boys Just Being Backstreet Boy Girl Backstreet Boys Nsync

Author:Jillian Hervey

“Half of my family is in Los Angeles, so my cousin was the first person to play me, like, Snoop Dogg, and I would always feel like 'Omg I shouldn't be listening to this,' and my other cousin was the first to introduce me to Aaliyah, so every time I'd go to the West Coast, I'd get those West Coast vibes.”

Feels Firsts Persons Play Half Listening My Family West Los Angeles Introducing Coast Cousin First Person My Cousin West Coast Vibes

Author:Jillian Hervey

“I definitely listened to Lauryn Hill - her's was like the first album I bought myself. Brandy's Never Say Never and Lauryn Hill's The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill were always in rotation for a couple of years.”

Years Firsts Couple Albums Hills Brandy Never Say Never Rotation

Author:Jillian Hervey

“Because of the time we're in, it's so easy to just blend all of it together and it's kind of like you're listening to everything all at once.”

Kind Together Easy Like You Listening

Author:Jillian Hervey

“I'm a Gemini and Lucas Goodman is a Leo, so we definitely wanted some duality. We definitely balance each other out in a lot of ways, but we're also very different.”

Way Different Wanted Balance Duality Goodman

Author:Jillian Hervey

“South Africa was something that just kind of hit me.”

Kind South South Africa

Author:Jillian Hervey

“I'm a diehard animal lover - I've always loved animals - but it was just one of those trips that I felt like I was going back to the beginning of where earth started. At the time, where a lot of stuff was brewing anyway, to be in such a beautiful and barren land, and just looking at how life began with all these creatures, I just started to really think about animals and time and just all of it.”

Thinking Earth Beautiful Felt Stuff Animal Land Lovers Creatures Just One Barren Animal Love Brewing Animal Lover Diehard

Author:Jillian Hervey

“I think the lion, besides the elephant, was the one animal that I just started thinking about so much.”

Thinking Animal Lions Elephants

Author:Jillian Hervey

“I remember just looking at this lioness, she was staring at me, and we just had this weird connection.”

Remember Connections Staring Lioness

Author:Jillian Hervey

“I just wanted to shed everything and do the things I really wanted to do. All the things I was scared of, I just wanted to try. It was like a clearing.”

Trying Wanted Scared Shed Clearing

Author:Jillian Hervey

“For the name Lion Babe, we are a little avant-garde, a little left. And with bands like Blondie, Pink Floyd, or Jamiroquai, you don't know they're bands, you just kind of hear the name and you're like 'What is it?' so that was the kind of thing we wanted to do.”

Knows Kind Littles Wanted Names Left Band Lions Babe Avant Garde Blondie

Author:Jillian Hervey

“Being vulnerable and strong is a complicated thing, but that's who we are.”

Strong Complicated Vulnerable Who We Are Complicated Things

Author:Jillian Hervey

“I think my life dramatically shifted when I met Lucas [Goodman] and it wasn't even planned. I had a very clear vision of what I was going to do.”

Thinking Vision Clear Mets Clear Vision Goodman

Author:Jillian Hervey

“I grew up always wanting to be a dancer and when I went to New York, I fell in love with the idea of performing in all ways.”

Way Ideas New York Grew Grew Up Performing Dancer

Author:Jillian Hervey

“I saw myself traveling with a company or making my own work and being a little weird. I wasn't thinking about the business side of anything, I just knew that I loved dancing.”

Thinking Littles Sides My Own Company Saws Dancing

Author:Jillian Hervey

“Being in New York, and meeting really amazing, talented, eccentric, and bold people, and just feeling really excited about life, got me really revved up and I just felt like everything was at my fingertips - that I could try anything. I really felt invincible. It was such a shift.”

People Trying Feelings Felt New York Meetings Excited Old People Eccentric Invincible Fingertips Really Amazing Excited About Life

Author:Jillian Hervey

“I had been with a guy for seven years and I was done with that. I wanted to reinvent my whole life and change my hair - I'd had brown, straight extensions forever - and I just wanted to get rid of that, to shed skin, and really just be independent.”

Years Done Whole Wanted Guy Forever Hair Skins Independent Seven Whole Life Brown Shed Extensions Seven Years Life And Change

Author:Jillian Hervey

“Back then, it's weird, because I wasn't consciously thinking about it and I think that's why the doors opened and I had the opportunity. It was a big shift and I realized that you can plan and think your life is going somewhere, but you also have to surrender to what opportunities present themselves and really go for those as well.”

Thinking Wells Bigs Life Is Opportunity Plans Doors I Realized Surrender

Author:Jillian Hervey

“The greatest blessing is that, within all of this, I've still been challenged every day to question and show who I am.”

Stills Shows Blessing Who I Am Greatest Blessings

Author:Jillian Hervey

“What kind of art do I want to make? What do I stand for? What inspires me? And then to have people in return respond to that... I think that's the greatest thing because throughout dancing, I'm always looking for that.”

People Thinking Want Kind Art Inspire Return Dancing

Author:Jillian Hervey

“I'm always looking for people to feel connected to me and inspired in their own right.”

People Feels Inspired Connected

Author:Jillian Hervey

“More than anything, it's been a transition into embracing my destiny. I have everything around me to be able to do this properly. Whether or not I was hiding from that early on, I think now it's great to feel that way. It's just the journey.”

Thinking Way Feels Able Destiny Journey Hiding Transition My Destiny

Author:Jillian Hervey

“You're just always growing. I feel like it's been very fast growth, but super exciting and I know I'll look back and feel like 'Yes, things were stressful, but it was also such an exciting time.'”

Knows Feels Looks Growth Growing Exciting Stressful

Author:Jillian Hervey

About the Author

Born: June 19, 1989
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Quotes: 102

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