Penn and I want to write a record together.

Domino Kirke

Categorized in : Record Write Want Together

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

pair shirt old i-am

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

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