Q&A with:

Kitty Clementine

“Use the sword, not the butter knife”

Singer/Songwriter
Los Angeles / Sydney, Australia
kittyclementine.com

What comes to your mind when you hear:

Art/Design: Minimal
Beauty: Love
Culinary: Over-rated
Fashion: Huh?
Film: Night on Earth
Literature: Hemmingway
Music:Waits
Online: Kill me
Photography: Nude
Stage: Midsummer Night’s Dream
Television: Don’t have one

Can you describe the moment you first realized that creating was something you absolutely had to do:
I’d been doing nothing but creating since I left school.  I was tired and broke and tired of being broke all the time so I decided to give it all up and train to become a chef.  The moment I first realized creating was something I absolutely had to do was the moment I picked up the phone to call culinary school. It was an overwhelming and inexplicable dread.  I knew then, that if I didn’t create I would be miserable for the rest of my life.

What are you trying to communicate with your art:
I have a sneaking suspicion that my art is trying to communicate me.

What project are you working on next:
The next album!  It’s going to very, very dirty and very, very bassey.

Which creative medium would you love to pursue but haven’t yet:
Sound design.  But I hate sitting in front of computers.  So I’d first need to invent a thing that worked like a theramin but sounded like anything you pleased.  I’d like to conduct a world of sound out of thin air in a manner that looks like a ninja-attack dancing in slow motion.  Yes that please!

What is one great accomplishment in this industry that you have achieved:
Making this album.  The people that collaborated and the bizarre synchronicities that went into pulling those people together just when they were needed, was like a magic trick I never thought I knew how to do.

What one thing that has happened in your life has made the biggest impact on you:
Birth is pretty significant.

What makes you truly happy:
My friends, a big communal dinner and a good glass of red!

What keeps you balanced and sane:
Yoga without it I’d be a goner!