"These were tortured souls. And once they got famous, and into the spotlight - and there was all of these people with their fingers in the pie. And all of a sudden, this special thing that was just for them becomes everybody else's business. You have to harden your heart to that. It's business time. Everyone's going to have an opinion about what you do. The only thing that really matters is how you feel. And those of us that can't hold on to that tiny little light - you're going to lose it. And that's when the dark thoughts become a solution to a problem. I was trying to create a character that I can put up on a pedestal: see, that's what you should be, but don't look back here, because I'm messed up! And what I realized is that by me being unapologetically honest about my darkness - it's more inspirational to the people that follow me, because they're not trying to look up to this unattainable thing. They're looking up to someone they want to be, but they're also saying: oh, she's just as screwed up as I am, and she's still here. A committee of people who come forth, and do my bidding when I need them to. There's an Olympian in me. The shame and the guilt, and what the hell am I doing? I'm a smart person, I'm a good person, why am I doing this to myself! And I saw my nemesis, an ugly person, a monster, addicted to misery... My addiction started to shift. I would feel this overwhelming urge, and I would go to the piano. I call them skeleton songs, they're just bones. I was believing that I have unfinished business with my family, my band mates baby-sit me... It was what I was allowing myself to do to myself. As you roll over, the lies become the truth. And everything you say to yourself becomes how you really feel. Your body then is: well, I guess we need to go, and do something to shut this down. We're not bad people, we're just sick, sad people that are trying to find our peace... My boys are attracted to what's fantastic, what's different: a slightly bigger nose, or maybe their mouth is little more over here, and also the mind, the heart, the guts, the bravery to do the hard things. There's so much, but yet we feel so alone. You're able to speak to billions, but yet you don't have one soul to talk to. The last two or three days because of the poetry that I have been putting out on social media I have lost 1500 followers; and I don't need them."
Lzzy Hale, изд. 8 апр.' 2025, YouTube,
вижте я час и нещо, и я слушайте:
