I have this sense that I didn't really start growing up until my twenties.
I'm a songwriter who's put my childhood memories and teenage angst into songs.
I wanted to be a cheerleader, like my sister was - all the most popular and beautiful girls are cheerleaders and I wanted that, and it demolished this vision of myself. That's when I found the piano, when music saved me; that's when I first attempted to write my own songs.
I'm raising my daughter with her grandparents in the picture, and that feels good.
At the age of 15 months my daughter was diagnosed with very bad asthma, and essentially I put my career on hold for a good eight years.
Feminists were psyched that I had armpit hair
Walking is magic. Can't recommend it highly enough. I read that Plato and Aristotle did much of their brilliant thinking together while ambulating. The movement, the meditation, the health of the blood pumping, and the rhythm of footsteps. . . this is a primal way to connect with one's deeper self.
I have a hard time finding something that I really enjoy reading, but I read 'The Great Gatsby' every summer.
The process of drawing is. . . the process of putting the visual intelligence into action, the very mechanics of visual thought. Unlike painting and sculpture. . . the artist makes clear to himself and not to the spectator what he is doing. It is a soliloquy before it becomes communication.
Every man carries two bags about him, one in front and one behind, and both are full of faults. The bag in front contains his neighbors' faults, the one behind his own. Hence it is that men do not see their own faults, but never fail to see those of others.
I was once in a long relationship with a man who ran a vintage clothes store but had been a chef, so I'd come home each night to a different three-course meal. I was quite fat, but so happy.