I would love to love something, especially if I could do it without feeling like I was watching it die right in front of me.
Vanessa VeselkaBut I know what it means to crave what you're not. To want to sew up that rift because it's exhausting to hold it open. Sometimes you just need to be someone else, someone who doesn't care about anything at all. I know I do. I want emptiness but I can't have it.
Vanessa VeselkaThe equation Bubble Tea = Something to Look Forward To depressurizes the misery of capitalism and is a Hello Kitty band-aid on the festering wound of Neo-Liberalism.
Vanessa VeselkaThere's a big part of me that's atheist. There's a big part of me that's agnostic. And there's a big part of me that tends towards the mystic. The thing that I find is most important in all of that is to retain my sense of wonder and the idea that I don't actually know what's going to happen.
Vanessa VeselkaIf you're with an agent and they don't like where your work is going - the pressure behind it is the pressure of the hierarchy which says "I know what I am talking about," which I find offensive.
Vanessa VeselkaThere doesn't seem to be a lot of stance from the outside of that world to disagree.
Vanessa VeselkaI learned to live in my own head. I learned to follow intuition and more than anything, I learned what was important to me.
Vanessa VeselkaAs a songwriter and musician, it strikes me that in music, a certain territorial nature when it comes to one's own autonomy around life and art is common and understood.
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