“Out of everything I felt during that time — grief, rejection, loneliness, anger, embarrassment — the confusion was probably the most unbearable. I really could not fathom how the beginning had led to the end and I tried so, so hard to make sense of it.”
Interviews
“I’m rather accomplished in martial arts. I’d guess you wouldn’t expect it, but I’m a black sash (belt) instructor of a style of Wing Chun kung fu, actually. I teach it to my daughter to help her be capable of defending herself.”
“We never doubt our instincts, We trust our ears, if it sounds right it usually is… We don’t wait to be told our songs are good, We know it when we write one.”
“I feel like whenever I start on a project, there always has to be something new.”
“Always push your ideas a little bit beyond the obvious and see what’s there.”
“Sometimes I have dreams with songs. It’s rare but when it happens I can hear the full band, production, it’s a pretty cool moment. Trying to record it half-asleep when you wake up and capture the production, though, is a whole other task!”
“Pushing back as a female in the music industry does not necessarily make you a lot of friends, but my dream in life wasn’t to ‘make friends.’ It was to be a musician.”
“I think the biggest thing is I’ve had a lot of time to reflect on things with some time off. And one of the things that I did during that time of the pandemic is I’ve purchased and now possess Omnisphere.”
“I would love to perform live in front of people just the only thing is I’m an introvert and hate people looking at me.”
“You have to feel the music as much as you make it. There are a lot of intricacies to music making with all types of plugins & technical aspects. It has to start with a feeling though. You have to actually be into the music.”
“It’s the best thing in the world, live music. Unites as all in a common, celebratory goal!”
“I been makin’ music my whole life. Growing up low to middle class in a black family music is everywhere… and umm I inspired me to start. Type SHIOT!”