Quotes from Domino Kirke

I grew up in a family where my father was in a rock band, and I saw and heard every story.

No one listens to CDs anymore. Who even owns a CD? I used to bring my CDs to shows, and it was, like, a guarantee that everyone would buy one. Nope! Not anymore.

I grew up around a lot of artists and people passing through. I learned so much from them. I felt the safest with them - and the most endangered.

I've just always loved babies, even when I was a baby.

I moved to the States from London when I was 12 years old. My father was in a band and wanted to tour, so we moved here, but it wasn't until I moved to Williamsburg and had my son that I felt like I finally belonged.

'In Ear Park' perfectly encapsulates the beauty of youth for me.

I'm still a really shy performer and can't wear high heels and need to be with bare feet.

My son's birth was pretty life-shattering, in good ways and bad ways. I realized that I needed a doula because I'm not close to my mom, and I don't have a lot of people in New York.

My family realized I was going to do birth work and then music; they were like, 'What's a doula? This is not what you were meant to do!' And I was like, 'Everyone thinks they can only do one thing.'

It's two different brains: the mom brain that's, like, selfless and ego-free, and the on-stage 'Look at me. Like, listen to my song. Hope you like it.' There, it is all ego.

I am a sucker for an old pair of Levi's and a worn-out shirt.

I got to play with incredible musicians, but it happened really fast. I couldn't believe it was all happening, and so by the time I was, like 18, 19, I sort of took a break and was just like, 'I'm not ready for this.'

When I sing, I feel calm.

Listeners can expect to feel very relaxed during the listening experience of 'Beyond Waves.' The songs are very lyrical and extremely intimate, so I feel like you're going to need to be in a quiet room when you hear them, at least the first time.

The work I do when I'm not making music is very much about service, helping women give birth or aiding in family planning.

Lipstick just makes me feel like I can't talk, like I am going to suffocate - like I've been locked in a cupboard and can't get out. I'm so aware of it.

I got married, and it was a bit of a whirlwind I wasn't expecting for the next phase for Penn and I.

I'm obsessed with any kind of floral print.

The idea of windows, that's so symbolic to me within labor. And I'm always opening windows during a birth. If someone's been in labor all night and they're exhausted and sort of over it, opening a window or drawing a curtain can change the game. And sometimes the doula is the first one to suggest it.

Big Thief is destined for greatness.

Mark Ronson was a dear friend through family and through growing up in New York, being in that scene, and Mark came to a show and really liked it and asked us to join his record label Allido records, or 'all I do' records, and that was sort of a development deal.

I try to wear a dress and heels when I want to make more of an effort and be a bit more feminine.

I just believe pregnant women need a familiar face, someone who isn't related to them who they may have all this emotional past with, to be there, just for them, during the birth.

I toured. I played, I was in that world so intensely, and then I had to bow out.