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One of my favorite anecdotes about her is that in the eighties a colored-contact company actually created a shade called Daisy Blue.
But there’s no one in her life who is truly interested in who she is, especially not her parents. And it really breaks her. But it is also how she grows up to become an icon.
I wanted someone to single me out as something special. I was just so desperate to hold someone’s interest.
There’s this peace that comes with knowing you have a person in the world who would do anything for you, that you would do anything for.
You do sometimes sit and wonder why it wasn’t you, what makes you so special that you get to be safe. The world doesn’t make much sense.
Men often think they deserve a sticker for treating women like people.
No amount of advice or lectures or trying to chain somebody down ever stopped anyone who didn’t want to stop in the first place.
“When You Fly Low.” I’d written it about selling yourself short, how some people try to keep you small. “They want you humble/want to atrophy that muscle/want to stunt the hustle/get you to call uncle/to keep you flying low.”
Music can dig, you know? It can take a shovel to your chest and just start digging until it hits something. That night, singing that, just reaffirmed that I wanted to put out an album of my own songs.
They each seemed like they thought the other one was the only person in the room. Like we were watching two people who didn’t realize thousands of people were watching them.
Daisy: I run hot and I always have. I am not going to sit around sweating my ass off just so men can feel more comfortable. It’s not my responsibility to not turn them on. It’s their responsibility to not be an asshole.
Daisy: I said, “It’s like some of us are chasing after our nightmares the way other people chase dreams.”
Billy: She had a lot of imagery of darkness, running into darkness, chasing darkness.
Because it feels good, to be understood. You feel in sync with a person, you feel like you’re on a level that no one else is.
Confidence is being okay being bad, not being okay being good.
ran directly into Billy’s arms. He picked her up, just off the floor, and kind of swung her back and forth for a moment. And I could have sworn to you he smelled her hair before he put her back down.
It was such a sad love song. About wanting somebody you can’t have and knowing you’re going to want them anyway.
Appreciation from people you admire changes how you see yourself. And Billy saw me the way I wanted to be seen.
what we all want from art, isn’t it? When someone pins down something that feels like it lives inside us? Takes a piece of your heart out and shows it to you? It’s like they are introducing you to a part of yourself.
looked at her and she said, “I like writing with you.” And I said, “I like writing with you, too.” And then I said something I shouldn’t have said. Daisy: He said, “I like a lot about you.”
But loving somebody isn’t perfection and good times and laughing and making love. Love is forgiveness and patience and faith and every once in a while, it’s a gut punch. That’s why it’s a dangerous thing, when you go loving the wrong person. When you love somebody who doesn’t deserve it. You have to be with someone that deserves your faith and you have to be deserving of someone else’s. It’s sacred. I
I wear what I feel comfortable in. How other people feel about it is not my problem.
You have to have one person in your life that you know would never do anything to steer you wrong. They may disagree with you. They could even break your heart, from time to time. But you have to have one person, at least, who you know will always tell you the truth.
You need one person who, when the shit hits the fan, grabs your stuff, throws it in a suitcase, and gets you away from the Italian prince.
Billy: I couldn’t believe it. That she would…I had trusted her when all signs said that I shouldn’t.
That album cover is why I, as a young girl, fell in love with Daisy Jones. She just seemed so fearless.
