When you're home or you're working, your mind just isn't allowed to just roll on like it does when you're watching the scenery go by. You're hurdling through space but you're not really moving. ...It's that dreaminess, that ability to just get dreamy while you're looking out the window and you see something...and it makes you think of something else, and all of a sudden the words are just flowing out of you.

Pegi Young

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All things must end, and they do! You're only stuck in a place if... by Pegi Young

All things must end, and they do! You're only stuck in a place if you choose to stay stuck there.

stuck ends all-things

I am lucky in that my children are grown, my youngest is twenty-seven. I didn't have the conflict between artist and mother while they were young because I really focused in, very much, on the mothering aspect.

artist mother children

Right now in my middle years, I'm getting to enjoy a resurgence of my own creativity, which I'm fully embracing and enjoying.

resurgence creativity years

You want to have a song that people will listen to and go, 'Oh, yeah! That reminds me of something in my life,' or, 'something I'm currently going through,' or maybe something happens later and you hear the song and go, 'Wow! That really was telling a story that I can relate to now.' That's my hope.

stories song people

There's always something that happens where I go, 'Oh, that was s... by Pegi Young

There's always something that happens where I go, 'Oh, that was so awkward!'

awkward happens

Be true. Be as true and honest with yourself as you can and then you've just got to let it go from there out into the universe. Whatever happens after that, I have no control of, but I do have control of what I'm willing to put out there.

being-true let-it-go honest

Just accepting that vulnerability is part of the deal, I think, m... by Pegi Young

Just accepting that vulnerability is part of the deal, I think, makes that part okay.

okay accepting thinking

If you're in a painful place, be there, feel it, but don't stay stuck there. Do what you've got to do to get out of there. And if you're in a really joyful place, believe that that's not going to last either.

lasts painful believe