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

Domino Kirke

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

wear high shy feet

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.

like band father son

Big Thief is destined for greatness.

thief big destined greatness

What I learned is that it's very hard to have both a family life and a touring life simultaneously.

very hard family life

I feel like doulas put the ball back in the mom's court. They trust you to normalize the high drama.

feel you trust mom

I'm obsessed with any kind of floral print.

any print obsessed kind

I love a jumpsuit, and I have a bunch of them. I'm known for wearing them like a uniform.

wearing uniform like love

Being in a band was so fun and exciting, but I was just kind of focusing more on performance and wasn't really writing the songs - I didn't really think I had a voice.

performance think voice fun

I didn't set out to write pop hits.

pop set write out

When I met Penn, he was an actor, but he wasn't working, and he wasn't sure if he wanted to go back to work, and I was kind of into that!

actor back go work

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.'

musicians play time believe

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.

friend new growing-up family

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.

bring everyone who like

I was sort of getting used to being a single mom, maybe a little too used to it.

being single used mom

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

phase got expecting next

Penn and I want to write a record together.

record write together want

I've always put out EPs because I had a kid and never had the time to tour and do what it takes to support a record.

never always support time

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.

good mom people son

I'm not like, 'I'm a famous doula.' I'm a doula. I'm trying to find a way to get rid of the stigma around 'You're the singer; You're the actor' - we have to be able to do more than one thing.

find you trying way

I was always interested in becoming a midwife. Then, at my own birth, I didn't get the support I'd hoped for, and that changed everything. That's why I became a doula. There's such a need.

need own my-own support