I spent a decade talking to famous people about love, sex, and what it means to be human; and I carry around so much of what folks shared with me back then, to this day.
“Relationship is a great word for the interconnectivity of all things. My relationship to the Earth is precious to me, as well as to the animals, to my fellow humans, and to the elements that bring life to the planet. My relationship to my family and to the communities that hold me up gives me joy every day. Each spirit is unique and intertwined; being in relation to all beings in all the universes is a truth that sustains me. This is love. I learned that love can be unconditional and everlasting, however it shifts shape.“ – Daniel Sea
+ + + + +
DANIEL SEA x LOGAN LYNN
for HuffPost Queer Voices (2012)
(Photo by Casey Orr)
“I think coming of age in a small town pre-internet made me really focused and independent but also incapable of handling love for a really long time. I think it’s really important to have crushes growing up and fool around with someone and get in trouble. I never really did that until way later in life, so I feel like for a long time I was really emotionally stubbed.” – SSION
SSION x LOGAN LYNN
for HuffPost Entertainment (2012)
In the spring of 2017 I had the chance to sit down with Mitski to talk about music, self-care, and what was happening in her life at the time as she transitioned from being an IYKYK indie artist to being very well known across the globe. During that conversation she said a bunch of thoughtful, incredibly tender things, but this part has always stuck with me:
“I think the most important process for understanding the world and what’s going on in yourself is to name things. We name streets, flowers, people, experiences, identities – we need to name a thing in order to make sense of it. I think songwriting is another naming process, where you give a name to a big muck inside you, or at least a little part of the big muck, in order to feel like you know it, and know where to put it. So I could say that writing songs has been a gateway to a deeper understanding of myself, but I actually think songwriting has given me a much simpler understanding of myself, in that all these messy, dark, unknowable things can be named, and become 3-minute songs to put on an iPhone instead of stirring in the big goop of the mind.”
+ + + + +
MITSKI x LOGAN LYNN
“Naming The Big Muck Inside You”
Read our chat in full HERE.
