If you're not an actor, or if you're any other kind of artist, there's this sense that, "I must express this thing." Why make a painting if you don't feel like you have to for something inside of yourself? Why make a song if you don't feel like you have to because there's something that you need to get out? And when you're an actor and you're not performing text that you've written, I think there's this bizarre disconnect with the must-ness of it.
Lola KirkeThe idea of choosing something that you want to be, that you identify as, at a young age and pursuing that without question - for me that was acting.
Lola KirkeI had no kind of work ethic and I always felt that music - especially rock 'n' roll - was a more for boys.
Lola KirkeYou perform the thing that you made, that's inside of you, and to subject that to any kind of scrutiny is terrifying. It's still terrifying to me.
Lola Kirke