Quotes from Alison Sudol

Especially growing up in Los Angeles, there's just a very different mind-set than my own. There's no 'Romeo and Juliet' in Los Angeles. There's 'Laguna Beach.'

I'm a terrible parallel parker.

I want you to feel in 'Riversong' like you're floating down a river on your back, and you're looking at the stars, and everything is incredibly still and peaceful.

Percussion is so good for me!

When you're vulnerable and lost and then suddenly somebody is kind to you and gives you love and gives you tenderness and takes care of you in some way, that creates a huge indebtedness. From there, the likelihood that you're going to follow them anywhere is much higher.

It's hard to constantly delve into your psyche and unearth these deep and often painful feelings and hold them out in front of people and say, 'Here's the most vulnerable part of me.'

I felt brave when I sang and could put into lyrics what I couldn't tell anybody else.

If I'm in a social situation where I'm triggered, I go into the bathroom and move and shake and breathe.

I love Bright Eyes - I absolutely love him.

As a musician, you kinda get used to failure in life, and then when things actually start succeeding, it's a very interesting feeling.

I can be very pessimistic and very dark, but there is also a part of me that's very determinedly optimistic.

I was so afraid of being lumped into this category of female actresses trying to sing.

Once one goal is checked off, you have to up the ante just to keep yourself sane.

When you have goals and dreams and things that you've been wanting your whole life, and then they actually start happening and you start checking things off your list, it's like, whaaat? Huhhh?

We are living in a process of pursuit. But sometimes we get so focused on trying to get where we're going and we forget that this is life, too. We're living it right now.

If you're going to learn how to ride a bike as an adult, do it somewhere where there's no people in the middle of the countryside. Don't do it where people are born on bikes basically.

As a person life has always been a bit of a challenge for me and I have spent so much of my early years in fear and I think that making music makes me want to be more courageous.

I love the clean elegance of cream and black.

I was worried that acting would somehow ruin any credibility I had as a musician.

I firmly believe in real-life fairy tales.

I was a teenager with a lot of strangeness in me that I didn't know how to express. I was trying hard on the outside to be very normal and fit in, but inside I was a big weirdo. Thank God that little weirdo persisted, otherwise I would be so sad.

I think I had a lot of fear, even when I was really young, that I was going to be seen as something that I didn't want to be. I didn't really know how to be myself well enough to be comfortable being someone else.

Pines' is a different kind of album for me. It was a different approach, everything about it, I just went at it as if I had never made a record before basically.

There are so many things I've done that I'm glad I've done privately because it's so embarrassing just anyway.