the 'natural' is not necessarily a 'human' value.
Everything in my house was either free or under 40 bucks, and people come to my house and can't believe that I picked up everything on the street or in a thrift shop.
It was not cool to be that fun, bubbly kid, so I would just go off on my own and sing and make up songs, and that's how I think I developed into the kind of artist and writer that I am.
I took lessons for about everything you could imagine - gymnastics to karate to flute and piano. My mom always definitely kept me in some kind of class or program, but for guitar, I kinda gave up on then kinda just taught myself. Same thing with piano. I've never been good with following lessons.
As a young girl, I remember singing CeCe Penniston's 'Don't Walk Away. ' It was like my jam.
One of my biggest musical influences is definitely Ella Fitzgerald as a vocalist.
I'm an around-the-way girl. I'm a singer, songwriter. I'm about positivity and spreading a good message and telling the people's story.
When I leaned a little too close to the doorway, my inner voice piped up, telling me not to be stupid. The guy with the bionic senses was better equipped for this.
I'm battling monsters, I'm pulling you out of the burning buildings and you say I'll give you anything but you never come through.
The real lover is the man who can thrill you just by touching your head or smiling into your eyes - or just by staring into space.
Beauty is at its most poignant when the cold hand of Death holds poised to wither it imminently.