Ladyhawke Quotes

It's amazing. Being clearheaded for a show, for starters. Not being reflux-y because of the amount of beer you've drunk.

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

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

“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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

I think I've got a lot of dark lines in this record [Wild Things] that I've hidden quite nicely among the nice things.

With the first record (2008’s Ladyhawke) I was quite naive, but very excited and happy.

When I say “when you’re always almost lonely, you forget to take it slowly,” I mean that you don’t always take care of yourself.

I don't drink anymore. That's a huge - that's a massive - difference in my life. It's made a huge change in my touring.

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.

It's crazy in just the difference it makes turning up to sound check without a hangover.

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