I grew up as a dancer, and music and dance are so closely tied, that in ballet class you're listening to all this classical music, and in modern class you're working with a live drummer. It was something that always made me feel really comfortable and I've had a connection to since the beginning.

Jillian Hervey

Categorized in : Listening Dancer Ballet Class

The women in my family are just strong women who do their own thing, so I knew I needed to have individuals like that.

Jillian Hervey

strong-women individual my-family

You need to have honest things in the world. Even if people don't understand it, if it's coming from you, that's already important.

Jillian Hervey

important people needs

I think having wild, huge hair, is me being my own version of a lioness.

Jillian Hervey

lioness hair thinking

I find that the quest to be perfect and make perfect music is like a black whole. I realize that you can come with the intention to capture a vibe and use a formula, but you have to accept that most of the time its not going to be what you envisioned and you might manifest something better. I think that's been the hardest thing to wrap my head around that most ideas we go for ends up sounding different. I think art in general should be about enjoying the process and the experience. All that matters is if you feel the music and it captures the element your going for.

Jillian Hervey

perfect art thinking

You're just always growing. I feel like it's been very fast growth, but super exciting and I know I'll look back and feel like 'Yes, things were stressful, but it was also such an exciting time.'

Jillian Hervey

growing growth looks

As I got older, I started to do it more and more, and I wanted to learn all of the different types. I grew up doing modern, so I wanted to learn ballet, tap, jazz, and African - just everything.

Jillian Hervey

jazz ballet different

I remember just looking at this lioness, she was staring at me, and we just had this weird connection.

Jillian Hervey

lioness connections remember

Being able to connect with people with similar taste and style also allows people to get to know us better. Although we have been around for a little, some people listen to our music and some people don't listen to our music, so it's nice to be able to curate the sounds and show our influences. Although it's nice to go out and look fancy and dress up, you don't always go to parties where the music is a good so it's nice to be in a position to bring the vibes and create the experience.

Jillian Hervey

party nice people

In music in general, you're always getting a lot of information, buts it's most important to have honest communication. It's always important to understand that we can do so much individually if we connect with one another and have honest conversations. As scary as it is, it can be very liberating. Staying connected to the people you love and staying connected to the things that really matter has been my biggest lesson.

Jillian Hervey

communication scary people

We're always working on new music and now that we have our own studio space we have tried to stay focus and really explore. But we have projects out that we are super proud of and want to keep building on that.

Jillian Hervey

building focus proud

Being in New York, and meeting really amazing, talented, eccentric, and bold people, and just feeling really excited about life, got me really revved up and I just felt like everything was at my fingertips - that I could try anything. I really felt invincible. It was such a shift.

Jillian Hervey

new-york feelings people

I saw myself traveling with a company or making my own work and being a little weird. I wasn't thinking about the business side of anything, I just knew that I loved dancing.

Jillian Hervey

dancing littles thinking

I grew up always wanting to be a dancer and when I went to New York, I fell in love with the idea of performing in all ways.

Jillian Hervey

dancer new-york ideas

I think my life dramatically shifted when I met Lucas [Goodman] and it wasn't even planned. I had a very clear vision of what I was going to do.

Jillian Hervey

mets vision thinking

Being vulnerable and strong is a complicated thing, but that's who we are.

Jillian Hervey

who-we-are strong complicated

For the name Lion Babe, we are a little avant-garde, a little left. And with bands like Blondie, Pink Floyd, or Jamiroquai, you don't know they're bands, you just kind of hear the name and you're like 'What is it?' so that was the kind of thing we wanted to do.

Jillian Hervey

avant-garde band names

I just wanted to shed everything and do the things I really wanted to do. All the things I was scared of, I just wanted to try. It was like a clearing.

Jillian Hervey

scared wanted trying

I think the lion, besides the elephant, was the one animal that I just started thinking about so much.

Jillian Hervey

elephants animal thinking

I'm a diehard animal lover - I've always loved animals - but it was just one of those trips that I felt like I was going back to the beginning of where earth started. At the time, where a lot of stuff was brewing anyway, to be in such a beautiful and barren land, and just looking at how life began with all these creatures, I just started to really think about animals and time and just all of it.

Jillian Hervey

animal beautiful thinking

I had been with a guy for seven years and I was done with that. I wanted to reinvent my whole life and change my hair - I'd had brown, straight extensions forever - and I just wanted to get rid of that, to shed skin, and really just be independent.

Jillian Hervey

independent hair years