Being alive and understanding that and making the decision to actually live take a lot of courage.
Emily HainesI love to read about music and about art, but I don't try and take things about mythology or guidelines as to how I'm to behave as an artist. It's the realm of intellectual debate. Actually, more and more my direction is trying to get further away from being self-conscious of what the parameters are of the mainstream, where it intersects with the underground.
Emily HainesLife is passing you by as you speak, you're on a path and you're all on the same path toward death.
Emily HainesWe don't have T-shirts with my face, but there I can see the beginnings, especially young girls seeing me as sort of a icon in that way. And in that regard I'm more than happy to step in.
Emily Haines