Rachel Platten
👤 PersonAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
Really?
Really?
Wow.
Wow.
Well, it was one of the things that I thought would, I thought that they would be opposites. Before I became a mom, I thought that if I had children, it would steal my creativity, that my creativity would suffer. And what I have learned is that it could not be more It could not be less true.
Well, it was one of the things that I thought would, I thought that they would be opposites. Before I became a mom, I thought that if I had children, it would steal my creativity, that my creativity would suffer. And what I have learned is that it could not be more It could not be less true.
Really?
Really?
It is the opposite. My creativity has expanded so much. I mean, think of the act of creating a child. It is the most creative you will ever be in your life, right? You are literally creating a human. You are so tapped in to divine, to creation. To magic. To magic. Once you create a human, you can create anything.
It is the opposite. My creativity has expanded so much. I mean, think of the act of creating a child. It is the most creative you will ever be in your life, right? You are literally creating a human. You are so tapped in to divine, to creation. To magic. To magic. Once you create a human, you can create anything.
Like my songs flowed so easy as if God turned on a faucet that just never got shut off. And creating for me is so, much more easy and natural and flows. I mean, first of all, the range of what I feel from becoming a mom, as we said earlier, is so much more wide and wild.
Like my songs flowed so easy as if God turned on a faucet that just never got shut off. And creating for me is so, much more easy and natural and flows. I mean, first of all, the range of what I feel from becoming a mom, as we said earlier, is so much more wide and wild.
Life experience. So I have so much to pull from. I mean, I can harness and transmute all that terror and grief and rage I told you I went down and witnessed, and I can turn them into this beautiful art that's still actually sounds joyful somehow. There's joy in the pain that I'm singing about.
Life experience. So I have so much to pull from. I mean, I can harness and transmute all that terror and grief and rage I told you I went down and witnessed, and I can turn them into this beautiful art that's still actually sounds joyful somehow. There's joy in the pain that I'm singing about.
Well, first of all, my husband has since started working for me and now is a partner. And so it's amazing. He's bringing more income in from having come in and transformed my business. So it's not all on me anymore. And that has been a gigantic relief.
Well, first of all, my husband has since started working for me and now is a partner. And so it's amazing. He's bringing more income in from having come in and transformed my business. So it's not all on me anymore. And that has been a gigantic relief.
Yeah, it's amazing.
Yeah, it's amazing.
I have two things. I have two thoughts on this. One is I want you to think about the busiest time in your life.
I have two things. I have two thoughts on this. One is I want you to think about the busiest time in your life.