Quotes from Alison Sudol

I was a very quiet kid who didn't feel normal being outgoing and running around, so all the beauty that was in my life, I found in books. Books that made me think and transported me into a different world.

A boy I adored when I was 19 gave me the 'Emigrante' album by Orishas. Definitely not my normal taste, but I still kind of love it.

In my mind, I'm still that kid who gets affected by other people's music.

I have an affinity for a lot of things that are kind of fairy-tale-ish and bookish.

I've had a lot of experience with not allowing myself to experience certain emotions, like anger and confidence, and with acting you're in this space where it's safe to fully go there.

I'm just really not good at being like anybody else or writing like anybody else.

I have a huge love for architecture.

Besides a princess and a ballerina and a firefighter and a vet, I think I wanted to be an artist.

I don't love my speaking voice, frequently - but I think that we need music, and when a person sings, those kind of vibrations go through your body, it's amplified in the room. It goes through everyone else's body, too.

I look to films to learn and to see different avenues that you can take in growing up.

I found movies to be such a beautiful escape.

I always try to scour local vintage shops and antique stores as much as I can while I'm on the road - it's my version of hunting for buried treasure.

I have all sorts of weird albums that people have given me lying around the house.