preservation of Emilie

(originally published Aprille 27, 2011.)

"What I was always told, literally word for word, a million times was growing up in my life--this just tortured me every day--was, 'You are not what is important. You are literally a vessel for the music of some a person has been dead for some hundred of years. You are meant to keep your individuality out if, because it’s not about you.' I'm just too wildly independent and selfish for that. Fuck yeah it's about me, because you're dead and I'm not and I'm the reason why anybody's getting to hear your fucking music. And guess who would have agreed absolutely? The guy who wrote it. They would have never had a problem with that."
~Emilie Autumn