Quotes from Kerli

My favorite form of meditation is breathwork - if you're crazy like me and find it hard to sit still, you should try it.

On 'Utopia,' I mix sick beats with ethereal elements while trying to keep the focus very much on the songwriting. If you strip any of these songs down to just the vocal and a piano, there's a real song in there.

There's no separation anymore between who I am and what I create.

I know someone might look at a creative person's job and think it's pretty fun. It is. It's the best thing in the world, but it's also extremely challenging to carve out your own completely unique path and not following a default path that someone else has already paved.

I think being vulnerable and real in the wolrd of fakeness is the bravest thing a person can do.

I really want to go to school for herbalism. Healing plants - that's a really big passion for me.

I like when life feels playful.

I got a classical piano training when I was little, and we also had music study lessons where we'd have to listen to a lot of classical music.

Finding out about Bjork was like finding out about some rare and magical thing that I had never encountered living where I was living at the time, being surrounded by the people I was surrounded by.

I started writing books and making clothes for my dolls when I was around 10 as a way of making my reality exciting. When I went out to play with friends, I always arranged elaborate sets and costumes.

The way creative people live is different from people who don't do anything creative.

I wrote 'Love Is Dead' when I was a super-depressed teenager.

I do promotion because I want to do art. I don't do the art because I want to be famous.

When you feel fulfilled, you feel happy - You feel love. When it comes to love, you always come first. If you don't love yourself, you can't truly love anyone else, either. I always tell myself to stay in love.

It's a conscious decision, a full-time job, to be happy.

Don't be scared to fly high, 'cause it will inspire others.

My fashion icons range from bubblegum pop princesses to grunge queens.

People generalize music by how you look, and I don't like that.

I know that my energy falls and rises with the phases of the moon. I rest in the winter. I wake up at my own pace, and I blossom in the summer. Life is supposed to be a natural process.

I really like mugwort. It's a witch plant and a purifier of energy. It's considered to be very important and powerful in the Celtic and Scandinavian tradition.

I'm really, really into the rave scene and just kind of how people come together and how it's just music and just love.

One day, I'll be a crazy old lady with long rainbow hair living in the woods. I will have a rad tree house with tons of rooms for people to come over, recharge, and make art.

I grew up in a small town in the woods of Estonia, and there was not much else around me besides nature. It was stunning, but I dreamt of meeting eccentric people and going exciting places. Music became my escape. I thought if I got good enough, I could leave.

I have an extremely tight, extremely big family, and I love them so much it's almost painful.