"My music is a mix of everything, mostly my own life. I just write about things that mean something and that I can write about. There's no point in pretending."
"People expect you to change when you become a mother, and of course my priorities changed when I had Violet. She's number one in my life and the best thing that ever happened to me, but I still have fun. I am still myself, but that is made out to seem like I am rebelling against motherhood."
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Source: Song: It's Good to Be Alive, Album: Tribal, 2014
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