I'm Not A Goddess, For Crying Out

My Advice For Someone Who Wants To Be Creative But Has A Chronic Illness Is To Think Of Something That You Can Do As Opposed To All The Things You Can't Do - And Do That. It's Just Like Gardening: What Can Grow In This Soil? There's Some Soil You Can Grow Roses In And Some Soil You Can Only Grow Cactuses In, So If You Can Only Grow Cactuses, Become The Best Cactus Grower In The Whole World. Taking Care Of Yourself Is The Most Important Thing. Find Something That Makes You Happy. Don't Get Down On Yourself That You Can't Run A 4k Or Dance All Night Long At A Fun Club. Give Yourself A Break.

I've Always Been Like, "look, You're Going To Die And It's Not Going To Matter After You Die That You Got Out Onstage And Bombed."

The Only Thing I Collect Is Art. I Collect It Because I Like Looking At It. A Lot Of It Is Really Personal Stuff That My Friends Have Made, Paintings That My Husband's Mother Made, And Things That I Bought. I Buy Abstract Art On Ebay, And I Buy Some Outsider Art On Ebay, Or What Is Called Folk Art, I Buy A Lot Of. I Have A Lot Of Professional Art Work As Well As More Stuff My Friends' Kids Make. To Have A Wall Of Art To Look At, I Feel Really Surrounded By Love, Because So Much Of The Work Is Related To My Friendships.

I'm A Big Proponent Of Open Adoption, Because It Allows A Relationship Between The Birth Mother And Her Child So That The Kid Isn't Like, "where Did I Come From?" And To Have It Be Like, "look, You Have A Bunch Of People Who Love You." Not Just The Parents Who Are Raising You On A Day-to-day Basis, But Also To Have Contact With Your Birth Mother And Hopefully Your Birth Father. So That You Can Be Like, "oh, They Love Me Too, And They Love Me So Much That They Knew They Couldn't Take Care Of Me But They're Still In My Life To Some Extent."

I'm In A Really Lucky Position Where People Will Be Interested In Whatever I Do, But What I Do Is Sing.