Latest Ladyhawke Quotes from Interviews

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• I do enjoy a beer. And a shot of vodka with some apple juice is what loosens me up before I go onstage, because I get really nervous. I wish I could say it was something more healthy, like Pilates.

  Ladyhawke

  Beer, Healthy, Wish

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• I'm more of a whiz on the guitar and drums. I hear certain sounds in my head, and I find it easy to translate them into synth sounds, but I'm not really technically-minded.

  Ladyhawke

  Easy, Translate

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• I wear non-gender-specific clothes. I just look silly in girls' clothes. I'm quite tall, and they're never the right cut for me - T-shirts and stuff are always too low-cut or too short. I've worn boys' clothes forever because girls' stuff never felt right for me.

  Ladyhawke

  Silly, Cutting, Forever

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• I always make music that's reflective of the mindset I'm in at the time, how I'm feeling.

  Ladyhawke

  Feelings, Mindset

  Source: www.coupdemainmagazine.com

• I think love and obsession are almost one in the same thing at some times. Because the person you end up falling in love with, there is an element of obsession in the early days - it's all you can think about.

  Ladyhawke

  Falling In Love, Fall, Thinking

  Source: www.coupdemainmagazine.com

• I think love is one that can definitely make you go crazy, and it's almost like love can induce mental illness in a lot of people, or bring it out worse. It makes people make crazy decisions.

  Ladyhawke

  Crazy, Love Is, Thinking

  Source: www.coupdemainmagazine.com

• I am a fan of the true crime and horror genres! So, I've got a dark side too.

  Ladyhawke

  Dark, Horror Genre, Fans

  Brightest Young Things Interview, brightestyoungthings.com. June 23, 2016.

• You can't always be like 'sunshine and roses'. I like a little bit of darkness.

  Ladyhawke

  Sunshine, Rose, Darkness

  Brightest Young Things Interview, brightestyoungthings.com. June 23, 2016.

• I feel like in every song I write, I always write a little darker bit.

  Ladyhawke

  Song, Writing, Littles

  Brightest Young Things Interview, brightestyoungthings.com. June 23, 2016.

• I'm still always a country girl from New Zealand.

  Ladyhawke

  Girl, Country, Stills

  Brightest Young Things Interview, brightestyoungthings.com. June 23, 2016.

• I'm just a small-town New Zealand girl. But, I do think it was incredibly necessary for me. Wild Things wouldn't exist if I hadn't have made some dramatic changes and that all happened in LA.

  Ladyhawke

  Girl, Thinking, Towns

  Brightest Young Things Interview, brightestyoungthings.com. June 23, 2016.

• I don't want to say I drank the Kool-Aid because I'm definitely not religious and I don't buy into any religion at all. I'm anti, because I don't like anyone being discriminated against. But, I do think that I very much needed a sunny place for me to feel happier, and living in LA was almost like that sort of cleansing experience like I was being baptized in a river.

  Ladyhawke

  Religious, Thinking, Baptized In

  Brightest Young Things Interview, brightestyoungthings.com. June 23, 2016.

• I don't want anyone to think that I've been lost to California.

  Ladyhawke

  Thinking, California, Want

  Brightest Young Things Interview, brightestyoungthings.com. June 23, 2016.

• "The River" [song] is also, yes, very metaphorical. Rivers are cleansing. As long as human beings have been on the Earth we've used rivers to cleanse ourselves. And, for me, the lyrics "something in the river," I think is - well, the river is a metaphor for where I was at the time.

  Ladyhawke

  Song, Thinking, Rivers

  Source: brightestyoungthings.com

• Writing that sort of [songs like "Let is Roll"]made me try to almost sort of ingrain it in my own head every time I sing it live as well. It's like therapy. It's like "Move on, Pip! Come on. You can do this! You can do this."

  Ladyhawke

  Song, Moving, Writing

  Source: brightestyoungthings.com

• “Let is Roll” is like - well, it was like me thinking of a human being in its purest form. That form being a baby where there's nothing there - well, unless I guess you believe that something comes along attached. It depends on what you believe.

  Ladyhawke

  Baby, Believe, Thinking

  Brightest Young Things Interview, brightestyoungthings.com. June 23, 2016.

• That song ["Money to Burn"] is me being a fly on the wall in situations in LA. I mean, I've seen the way a lot of people operate and I've seen that sort of thing go down. There's a lot of rich kids with a little bit of extra money.

  Ladyhawke

  Song, Wall, Mean

  Brightest Young Things Interview, brightestyoungthings.com. June 23, 2016.

• “Money to Burn” is a fantasy. I mean, I would love for that to be a true story. Most of my songs are written in metaphors.

  Ladyhawke

  Song, Mean, Stories

  Brightest Young Things Interview, brightestyoungthings.com. June 23, 2016.

• Lucy Lawless presented a couple of the awards. And, when I walked off the stage with her after one of them, she said "Oh, I want to introduce you to my friend Madeleine," and that's how I met Madeleine. I realize that's a ridiculous story.

  Ladyhawke

  Couple, Awards, Stories

  Brightest Young Things Interview, brightestyoungthings.com. June 23, 2016.

• I was living in the U.K. I was back in New Zealand for the New Zealand Music Awards, which is like our annual New Zealand GRAMMYs.

  Ladyhawke

  Awards, Annuals, New Zealand

  Brightest Young Things Interview, brightestyoungthings.com. June 23, 2016.

• I would be happier if it were a full audience full of drag queens. It would be my dreams come true.

  Ladyhawke

  Dream, Queens, Would Be

  Brightest Young Things Interview, brightestyoungthings.com. June 23, 2016.

• It doesn't matter if there are 20, 40, 100, or 500 people there. It doesn't matter how many people. You've got to perform to those people because they've come.

  Ladyhawke

  People, Matter, Ifs

  Brightest Young Things Interview, brightestyoungthings.com. June 23, 2016.

• That's always been my main anxiety - the people in the room. That's my massive stress - thinking that these people in the room are judging me. And, this time around, I've been able to think a little bit more clearly about that. I've been able to think "Well, no. They're here to enjoy a show," and I want to give them that. I want to give them their money's worth – for starters.

  Ladyhawke

  Stress, Thinking, People

  Brightest Young Things Interview, brightestyoungthings.com. June 23, 2016.

• A few people said to me on the UK tour 'that feeling you're feeling is natural. Everyone feels nerves. But, you've got to use that to your advantage. You've got to use that nervous energy and pull it into your performance’. And, I'd never thought of that before.

  Ladyhawke

  People, Feelings, Energy

  Brightest Young Things Interview, brightestyoungthings.com. June 23, 2016.

• I have these thoughts. I think "What if the show doesn't sell well? What if it's a half-empty room?" These are the paranoia thoughts that go through my head on a day-by-day basis.

  Ladyhawke

  Thinking, Empty Rooms, What If

  Brightest Young Things Interview, brightestyoungthings.com. June 23, 2016.