Diane Birch Quotes

• We're number one in domestic violence homicides. We also have a high rate of alcohol abuse and drug abuse and there's a high lethality rate when you get those factors involved, so the shelter has 52 beds, certainly it is never empty.

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  Numbers, Alcohol, Drug

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• I was sort of miserable and depressed. Music was my savior, but it was also the thing that I felt at times was breaking my heart.

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  Heart, Miserable, Savior

  "Diane Birch Finds Her Golden Age". Interview with Chris Tinkham, www.interviewmagazine.com. January 22, 2014.

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• If you're not getting what you want, maybe it's because you're not being heard, you're not speaking loud enough. And it's not necessarily volume-wise. It's about bringing your message and your voice, elevating it and constantly challenging it.

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  Challenges, Enough

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• For so many years, I haven't been able to wrap my head around the concept of time, just feeling like time is something that I don't have control over. It's such a release of control to finally accept that and then just be present. That's always been a big challenge for me.

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  Challenges, Feelings, Accepting

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I like dark music and I want to wear those goth clothes in school. And I suddenly discovered this whole world of music that I totally loved. The Cure was my favorite band, even though they're not specifically a goth band. I was listening to everything from The Cure to Depeche Mode to Siouxsie and the Banshees and Bauhaus and all of that stuff. It was just this release for me. I was able to channel a lot of my loneliness and my feelings of being misunderstood, and I could go into this world where it was okay to be really eccentric.

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  Loneliness, School, Dark

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I'm very nostalgic, and I spend a lot of time in the past, in my mind. That's part of my challenge, and what I really want to do is, I want to be present. I want to leave that in the past. When I say nostalgic, I mean my own life. I spend a lot of time reflecting on my past and not being able to process time.

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  Mean, Past, Challenges

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I never had that desire to start or join a rock band. Nor did I ever have a desire to see my idols in concert. I would have loved to see The Cure. I didn't understand the whole concept of: you love music, you buy the album, and then you go see them in concert. It felt like something that was so untouchable that I didn't even attempt to try and bring it to any place other than my headphones.

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  Desire, Trying, Untouchables

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• There was a lot of creative energy that I had, that I feel wasn't understood, and I think that whole world for me felt like another family, another place where I could feel heard.

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  Thinking, Creative, Energy

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I just think the fact that I was told not to be curious about the dark side, and it was such a religious-heavy upbringing made me interested in goth culture.

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  Dark, Thinking, Culture

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• It's hard to explain. It probably sounds super silly, but I do have a lot of really weird dreams.

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  Dream, Silly, Really Weird

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I definitely have recurring dreams. My dreams are crazy and surreal, which is why I appreciate Carl Jung, 'cause I feel that there has to be some kind of correlation. My dreams are like surreal sci-fi thrillers, and I don't spend time watching stuff like that. I never grew up on stuff like that. I've always just had very, very vivid dreams. This is awful to say, but, lately, I've been dreaming about witnessing murder a lot. What does this mean?

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  Dream, Crazy, Mean

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• You have to go really dark and deep with yourself and get your hands dirty and go into territories that you don't want to go into and feel things that you don't want to feel, but that's what ultimately pushes out the good and gives you some kind of a message that you can take and channel into something better. That energy's really powerful.

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  Powerful, Dirty, Dark

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• It's really hard to be an artist and put out records and put your heart out there. It's such a gamble, and you're often spending so much time fighting for something that you really believe in and feeling like it's not really getting anywhere. It definitely can try your patience.

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  Believe, Heart, Fighting

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I wrestled a lot with self-doubt. I've always had such a strong desire for what I wanted for my career, and as I go through it, I'm watching it change and morph into something a little bit different. So there was a lot of confusion as to whether I really wanted to do it, whether I wanted to go for it, because I put so much energy and effort into it, and it's hard.

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  Strong, Confusion, Effort

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I was like, "Oh yeah, that's kind of like me. I'm always living in the past." When I was really young, I thought I was from the 18th century and I was trapped in this life, and I was so miserable and figuring how I could get back. Maybe I was just picking up on ideas of past lives, but I really did believe that I was from another era.

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  Believe, Past, Kind

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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