The Truth About Being an Authentic Artist
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and I'm an artist which means my spirit is very much exploratory yeah I've always been outside of the box I've always been taking risks I moved to New York on my own I moved to LA on my you know and I moved to Boston on my own I moved to Sweden on my own I moved to Berlin on my own and I've always hustled as an artist as an actress as a musician and also I'm a dancer I love urban dance right and if you want the secret to be young You Gotta Dance yeah you got to keep moving that body yeah because it keeps the joy alive yeah I moved to Kenya on my own and I have been singing that song that violin song and look people people do it all the time what what inspires your music is that travel is that is it that background of like moving around a lot what is it specifically you feel like you draw inspiration from yeah I feel like I'm very spiritual and I'm hypersensitive as our many artists right you can probably relate yeah so I just feel like I've always been the kind of person who's hyper what's the word for it now an empath yeah so I always catch Vibes and I'm always yeah okay I'm not empathetic but I appreciate working with women who are yeah right because you like to see people yeah just don't get on my bad side that's okay I I'm not I'm not working right now we're good um yes I feel like I'm like I'm a song catcher I feel that was my purpose in my journey of life was to catch things around me impressions of people heartbreak The Human Experience yeah and to write about it the best I could and my craft has I've just followed my authenticity my whole life and I'm gonna tell you right now that doesn't mean you get rewarded yeah it's like you can be true to yourself and nobody gets what you're doing and they're like what is that chick what is she doing what is that weird stuff so you write with too many words babe you write with all those chords yeah you know it's like you just don't fit in necessarily yeah but you have to say that whatever you are that is who you got to do you know you got to do you yeah that idea that um you don't get rewarded for being true to yourself can I please just who who's ever heard that we are told all the time yeah be yourself be true to yourself but no one tells you it won't always pay oh yeah almost always pay off and things get very political in the art world and as a woman in the create as a creative and as a woman having done this now for 20 years you know that's why I love your show because I like seeing women empowered yeah