Emilie Autumn
Emilie Autumn
Emilie Autumn Liddell, better known by her stage name Emilie Autumn, is an American singer-songwriter, poet, violinist, and actress. Autumn's musical style has been described by her as "Fairy Pop", "Fantasy Rock" or "Victoriandustrial". It is influenced by glam rock—from plays, novels, and history, particularly the Victorian era. Performing with her all-female backup dancers The Bloody Crumpets, Autumn incorporates elements of classical music, cabaret, electronica, and glam rock with theatrics, and burlesque...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPop Singer
Date of Birth22 September 1979
CityLos Angeles, CA
CountryUnited States of America
My reasons to live Were my reasons to die But at least they were mine Now I've freedom unbound Cut the laces of life
If leeches ate peaches instead of my blood, then I would be free to drink tea in the mud!
Once upon a time is now.
Perfume was first created to mask the stench of foul and offensive odors... Spices and bold flavorings were created to mask the taste of putrid and rotting meat... What then was music created for? Was it to drown out the voices of others, or the voices within ourselves? I think I know.
Studies show: Intelligent girls are more depressed Because they know What the world is really like Don't think for a beat it makes it better When you sit her down and tell her Everything gonna be all right She knows in society she either is A devil or an angel with no in between She speaks in the third person So she can forget that she's me
And, what's more, this 'precious' body, the very same that is hooted and honked at, demeaned both in daily life as well as in ever existing form of media, harrassed, molested, raped, and, if all that wasn't enough, is forever poked and prodded and weighed and constantly wrong for eating too much, eating too little, a million details which all point to the solitary girl, to EVERY solitary girl, and say: Destroy yourself.
Being brave means to know something is scary, difficult, and dangerous, and doing it anyway, because the possibility of winning the fight is worth the chance of losing it.
Awareness is the enemy of sanity, for once you hear the screaming, it never stops.
I only sleep with people I love, which is why I have insomnia.
Nothing in my life has ever made me want to commit suicide more than people's reaction to my trying to commit suicide.
I am my heart's undertaker. Daily I go and retrieve its tattered remains, place them delicately into its little coffin, and bury it in the depths of my memory, only to have to do it all again tomorrow.
It gives me strength to have somebody to fight for; I can never fight for myself, but, for others, I can kill.
You," he said, "are a terribly real thing in a terribly false world, and that, I believe, is why you are in so much pain.