“The wheels in my brain are turning and I assure you a lot is brewing up in my head!” BrainWheelsBrewing Author:Tina Parol
“I've become more confident in who I am as an artist and as a person. I know what I want and am not afraid to voice it in the studio. Or in life. Take it or leave it!” KnowsWantPersonsArtistVoiceStudiosWho I AmNot Afraid Author:Tina Parol
“I don't watch much TV because I'm a very active person. I get up early. I love cooking, walking around NYC, hanging with friends. I looooove going out to restaurants of all sorts. I just dig exploring.” PersonsWatchesTvsWalkingCookingActiveGet UpRestaurantsGoing OutExploringUp EarlyNycCooking Love Author:Tina Parol
“I have replaced my instinct for secrecy with an instinct for confession.” InstinctConfessionReplacedSecrecy Author:Melissa Febos
“I am secretive. Always have been. And one way that secrecy manifested in my early life was that I was adept at juggling multiple social realities: I could get by no problem in many social arenas (including that of high school), but also felt alienated and totally uninspired by everything that happened there.” WayHas BeensProblemRealitySchoolSocialFeltHappenedHigh SchoolIncludingOne WayMultipleNo ProblemArenaSecrecySecretiveJugglingAdeptEarly LifeUninspired Author:Melissa Febos
“When you conceal inner reality, this pressure builds. You often don't expose yourself until it reaches extremity, a breaking point, and what emerges is a dramatic shift - at least in the eyes of others, from whom you've hidden the truth. So, dropping out of high school was like that for me. I was fine, I got straight As, I had friends, and then boom, I was like, I'm done.” DoneRealityEyeSchoolFineHigh SchoolPressureDramaticDroppingExtremityPoint BreakDropping Out Author:Melissa Febos
“Torch songs are confessions. They are an expression of feeling that cannot be concealed or contained or minimized. They are marked by anguish, yes, but also by yielding.” FeelingsSongExpressionConfessionAnguishConcealedTorchesExpression Of Feeling Author:Melissa Febos
“I always wished I could go to confession. I was so full of things I couldn't name and had an instinct to hide. I felt burdened by the loneliness of my interior life. I wanted some container that I could empty myself into, some ear that would never be shocked, even if it offered me some kind of penance.” IfsKindWantedNamesFeltLonelinessEmptyEarsInstinctConfessionShockedInteriorsContainersPenance Author:Melissa Febos
“I could not kick heroin to save my life, literally, until I started telling my secrets. It was some of the clearest evidence I've ever found of anything. It was the only immediate change in behavior I've ever undergone. I told the most frightening truths, and I was free.” FoundSecretBehaviorEvidenceKicksFrighteningHeroin Author:Melissa Febos
“The craft work becomes a mediator between me and my secrets, between me and the listener.” SecretCraftsListenersMediators Author:Melissa Febos