My mother was a Tibetan Buddhist. Amber Mark More Quotes by Amber Mark More Quotes From Amber Mark I love seeing the videos of people who go and talk to these neo-Nazis because they're like, 'I'm just here to have a conversation and understand.' Having a conversation about it and talking about your emotions without judgement. You have to be able to be completely open, because they're not going to be, but you could turn a new leaf in their life. Amber Mark you love life people I want people to know that there is a light at the end of the tunnel. Amber Mark end know light people When you lose someone that's really important to you, I feel like it's something that never really goes away. It's almost learning how to live with an empty feeling; it's weird. Something's always missing, but you kind of get used to it. Amber Mark feel feeling you learning 'Lose My Cool' is the second track on my EP dedicated to a stage in the grieving process. This track represents anger. I really bottled a lot up after my mother passed, and one day, I couldn't handle it anymore and just exploded on all of my friends and family. It was a very passive way of dealing with things, not very healthy. Amber Mark day cool family mother I don't meditate anymore, and I wouldn't call myself a Buddhist nowadays, though I do chant mantras here and there depending on the situation. Amber Mark here call myself situation Music can be a way for me to think back a lot of the time, almost like an opening into all the nostalgia I never express. Amber Mark think me music time My friends and family unknowingly tend to get in the way when I'm in my creative zones. Amber Mark friends-and-family friends family way My mother definitely plays a big role in my life and in my work. The majority of what I've created has to do with her passing and how I dealt with losing the most important person in my life. Amber Mark my-life mother work life I would say the first concert I ever went to is my earliest memory. I was four and already obsessed with Michael Jackson. We were living in Munich at the time. My mom, being the best person ever, somehow managed to get us two tickets to the '97 Michael Jackson History World Tour. Amber Mark memory best time history I studied a lot from bossa nova, and I used to listen to it a lot as a kid because my mum would play it. I even wanted to learn Portuguese in high school so I could sing in it. Amber Mark high high-school play school I get so insecure about studio sessions. Amber Mark studio about get insecure I put a lot of pressure on myself. Amber Mark put lot myself pressure 'Heatwave' just fits the feel of summer for me. Amber Mark feel just me summer When I wrote 'Monsoon,' I always imagined the music video being shot in India. The song had so much to do with my time in India with my mother as well as leaving her in India during the monsoon season to visit my family in N.Y. It really was a dream come true when I was given the opportunity to shoot in India. Amber Mark family music mother time After my mother passed away, I really felt there were things that I hadn't said or things that I did say that I kind of regretted saying. Amber Mark say saying things mother I like to write things that are a soundtrack to my life so if I am experiencing that moment, I want to portray what would be playing in the background. Amber Mark i-am my-life moment life I need quiet when I'm recording because I don't want any noise in the background. Amber Mark need noise want quiet Making music was always a big interest for me. Amber Mark big me always music I ended up having an epiphany that no body of work I put out will ever mean as much to me as '3:33 AM.' Amber Mark will me body work Once I accumulated a bunch of sounds and learned how to use Logic, I was like, 'Wait a second, I don't need to work with any producers. I can do this on my own.' Amber Mark wait my-own i-can work
