Never Have I Been A Blue Calm Sea

Joan Baez in La Courneuve, France by Christian Rose, September 13th, 1971

*When you try to act serious for five seconds so you can wish Warner Bros a happy 21st birthday*

 I think the songs speak for themselves. I have never claimed to be a brilliant keyboard player. I’ve never claimed to be a brilliant singer. I’ve never claimed to be a brilliant songwriter either, if it comes right down to it, I’m not prolific. I don’t write many songs, and the ones that I do write and complete I do because I like them. If I start something off that’s a dog, I dump it. I don’t have banks and banks of songs that are gathering dust. I’ve got ideas on a bit of tape with a nice little riff that I’ll drag out, and go, okay, I’m going to make something of this. And for that reason I don’t have many songs to give away. If I like them I want to do them myself.

Clarice Lispector, The Passion According to G. H. (translated by Idra Novey)

NOOMI RAPACE as Bosilka/Nevena in You Won’t Be Alone (2022)

CHALLENGERS (2024), dir. Luca Guadagnino

“It had nothing to do with me wanting to leave the band and everything to do with me just wanting to have another outlet for my songs, so that I didn’t feel like I was writing for nothing. Two songs every two or three years is not very much for a prolific songwriter.”

Nikita Chan (Chinese/American), Rainbow Shower, 2025, Colored pencil on paper

James Baldwin, Giovanni's Room

Patti Smith live in 1996

PONIES, 1x07 "Livin' Thing"

Stevie Nicks promo ad for Practical Magic.

Vijay Sarathy aka Canvasoul (Indian, b. 1995, Chennai, India, based in the Himalayas) - Photography