“I think love and obsession are almost one and the same thing at some times. Because the person you end up falling in love with, there is an element of obsession in the early days - it's all you can think about.” ThinkingPersonsEndsFallElementsFalling In LoveObsession Author:Ladyhawke
“I remember writing a song when I was about 15. This is the one I can remember. I know I'd been writing poetry for a long time, since I was about eight, but I remember my first one that I put to chords. I was really trying to be like the psychedelic era Beatles, I was obsessed. All I could think about was Beatles and Hendrix. So I tried to write a psychedelic song, and it was the worst. I couldn't even... If I read it now - I still have the book somewhere - it makes me cringe out loud. It was just about psychedelic stuff.” IfsThinkingKnowsWritingTryingFirstsLongStillsI CanBookRememberSongStuffWorstLong TimeEightErasLoudObsessedChordsPsychedelicWriting PoetryHendrixCringe Author:Ladyhawke
“I guess, a lot of people think is a long time between albums. It was needed for me. I went through a lot to get the album ["Wild Things"] finished. I actually went through a lot to even get the album started.” PeopleThinkingLongNeededLong TimeAlbumsFinishedWild Things Author:Ladyhawke
“I think I've got a lot of dark lines in this record [Wild Things] that I've hidden quite nicely among the nice things.” ThinkingLinesDarkRecordsNiceNice ThingsWild Things Author:Ladyhawke
“You can be surrounded by people all the time, but you feel so alone. I think that's when you can lose perspective and lose control of what you're doing. It's almost as if you have no fear and you don't really care about what happens to yourself.” PeopleIfsThinkingFeelsHappensCareLosesPerspectiveNo FearHave No Fear Author:Ladyhawke
“I have these thoughts. I think "What if the show doesn't sell well? What if it's a half-empty room?" These are the paranoia thoughts that go through my head on a day-by-day basis.” IfsThinkingWellsShowsRoomsHalfEmptyBasesSellsWhat IfParanoiaHalf EmptyEmpty Rooms Author:Ladyhawke
“That's always been my main anxiety - the people in the room. That's my massive stress - thinking that these people in the room are judging me. And, this time around, I've been able to think a little bit more clearly about that. I've been able to think "Well, no. They're here to enjoy a show," and I want to give them that. I want to give them their money's worth – for starters.” PeopleThinkingWantGivingWellsLittlesShowsAbleBitsEnjoyRoomsJudgingAnxietyLittle BitStressMassiveJudge MeStarters Author:Ladyhawke
““Let is Roll” is like - well, it was like me thinking of a human being in its purest form. That form being a baby where there's nothing there - well, unless I guess you believe that something comes along attached. It depends on what you believe.” ThinkingBelieveHumansWellsFormHuman BeingsBabyDependsLike Me Author:Ladyhawke
“"The River" [song] is also, yes, very metaphorical. Rivers are cleansing. As long as human beings have been on the Earth we've used rivers to cleanse ourselves. And, for me, the lyrics "something in the river," I think is - well, the river is a metaphor for where I was at the time.” ThinkingHumansWellsLongHas BeensEarthUsedSongHuman BeingsRiversMetaphorCleansingMetaphorical Author:Ladyhawke
“I don't want to say I drank the Kool-Aid because I'm definitely not religious and I don't buy into any religion at all. I'm anti, because I don't like anyone being discriminated against. But, I do think that I very much needed a sunny place for me to feel happier, and living in LA was almost like that sort of cleansing experience like I was being baptized in a river.” ThinkingWantFeelsReligiousNeededRiversAidsDrankSunnyCleansingBaptizedKool AidBaptized In Author:Ladyhawke
“I don't want anyone to think that I've been lost to California.” ThinkingWantLostCalifornia Author:Ladyhawke
“I'm just a small-town New Zealand girl. But, I do think it was incredibly necessary for me. Wild Things wouldn't exist if I hadn't have made some dramatic changes and that all happened in LA.” IfsThinkingMadeGirlHappenedTownsDramaticSmall TownNew ZealandWild ThingsDramatic Change Author:Ladyhawke
“I think love is one that can definitely make you go crazy, and it's almost like love can induce mental illness in a lot of people, or bring it out worse. It makes people make crazy decisions.” PeopleThinkingDecisionLove IsCrazyIllnessMental Illness Author:Ladyhawke
“I think love and obsession are almost one in the same thing at some times. Because the person you end up falling in love with, there is an element of obsession in the early days - it's all you can think about.” ThinkingFallFalling In LoveObsession Author:Ladyhawke