Speaker 1: Hi there, Welcome back to Love Someone with Delilah. Did
Speaker 1: it feel to you like it did to me that
Speaker 1: we lived through through parts of almost in black and white?
Speaker 1: Life just seemed that way, especially early last year dull
Speaker 1: devoid of color pizzazz. Remember how the movie The Wizard
Speaker 1: of Oz started out in black and white and then
Speaker 1: changed to living technicolor when Dorothy got to Oz. Well, lately,
Speaker 1: with June busting out all over, I'm starting to feel
Speaker 1: like like color, like vibrant color, like life is returning
Speaker 1: to the world, and it is an absolutely glorious sensation.
Speaker 1: Have I stepped into the land of Oz? Probably not yet.
Speaker 1: Every bloom in my garden seems to be more saturated,
Speaker 1: more vibrant, more live, just just more more than it's
Speaker 1: ever been before. It feels like we're coming out of
Speaker 1: the gray and into the light of life. And I
Speaker 1: am simply tickled pink about that. You know what else,
Speaker 1: I'm tickled over Today's guest on Love Someone. Since her
Speaker 1: debut in two thousand, she's released eight studio albums, She's
Speaker 1: had fifteen singles in the top ten of the Billboard
Speaker 1: Hot one, and she has sold out arenas all over
Speaker 1: the world. She got three Grammy Awards on a bookshelf
Speaker 1: setting at Home, along with a Daytime Emmy, seven MTV
Speaker 1: Video Music Awards, and was named Billboards Woman of the Year.
Speaker 1: In most recently, she received a star on the Hollywood
Speaker 1: Walk of Fame as well as the Brits Outstanding Contribution
Speaker 1: to Music Award, the first international artists to receive this honor.
Speaker 1: She is talented, She is gorgeous, She is bold, She
Speaker 1: is unapologetic and a hot, hot, hot ticket these days,
Speaker 1: and we are lucky enough to get to share a
Speaker 1: little bit of time with her. We will be right
Speaker 1: back with pink ladies and gentlemen after I give a
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Speaker 1: part of this great work. Hi Pink, Welcome to the
Speaker 1: Delilah Show. Hey there, Delilah. How many times is someone
Speaker 1: saying that at you? You know, for years it was
Speaker 1: why why why Delilah? And and then thank God the
Speaker 1: flame white tease fix that. So now at least I
Speaker 1: get something a little, you know, less murderous than than
Speaker 1: Tom Jones. Welcome aboard. You've got so many prod checks
Speaker 1: in the work, so many things that I want to
Speaker 1: talk about, your your songs that we're playing, and the movie.
Speaker 1: But first I want to hear about your kids, your
Speaker 1: mom's heart. I want to hear about your farm, your land.
Speaker 1: I want to hear about about those things before we
Speaker 1: delve into the you know, the radio stuff. Well, my
Speaker 1: kids are good. They're sitting in the backseat as we speak.
Speaker 1: Willow and Jamison. How old are they now? Willow likes
Speaker 1: to say that even though she's nine weeks three weeks.
Speaker 1: Come on, mom, don't rush, sweetheart, don't rush growing up
Speaker 1: of the trap. So yeah, and Jamison four, congratulations. I
Speaker 1: know that everything I've read, everything I've seen, everything I've
Speaker 1: heard you talking about. Um, I saw you what on
Speaker 1: a morning show the other day. I saw you and
Speaker 1: Ellen and everything just rings so loud, lee was so
Speaker 1: much love from your mama's heart. And and that's that's
Speaker 1: where I live full time. And I know you lived
Speaker 1: there too, So that's it right there, that's the thing
Speaker 1: that matters. Um. So yeah, I mean I I do
Speaker 1: feel like my life is just full of love right now.
Speaker 1: Would you have thought paying ten, fifteen years ago, twenty
Speaker 1: years ago, where you were at in life, that having kids,
Speaker 1: being a mama bear would change you in the miraculous,
Speaker 1: beautiful ways that it has. No, I you can't know, right.
Speaker 1: I mean, I have a lot of friends that have
Speaker 1: decided not to have children, and I think that's, you know,
Speaker 1: a brave choice in a different way. But you can't
Speaker 1: know the feeling until it happens, and you can't know
Speaker 1: how you're going to feel about it either, you know.
Speaker 1: So I feel like I hit the lottery with these kids.
Speaker 1: I feel like it's just this. It's changed the way
Speaker 1: I look at the world, like I get to just
Speaker 1: play all the time and be silly and love so deeply.
Speaker 1: I'm share all the stuff, you know. I remember when
Speaker 1: I gave birth to my firstborn, who's who's close and
Speaker 1: age to you now. I remember holding him and looking
Speaker 1: at him and going I didn't know how much I
Speaker 1: was loved until I had him and went, WHOA if God,
Speaker 1: if the universe believes that I am capable of raising
Speaker 1: the most perfect child I'd ever not in my life.
Speaker 1: And I knew that in the instant he was born.
Speaker 1: I knew that our our souls were meant to be together.
Speaker 1: I was like, oh my gosh, everything just changed, Everything
Speaker 1: changed forever. You sound like a really really soulful mama
Speaker 1: like you, I am a really, really really blessed mama,
Speaker 1: and I right now at my house upstairs, I came
Speaker 1: I have a studio in my house, I came downstairs.
Speaker 1: I have three of my grandkids and four of my
Speaker 1: my kid kids who are still young, still at home,
Speaker 1: all playing in a teeny tiny, little plastic kiddie pool
Speaker 1: in the backyard, and you're well, I I was up
Speaker 1: there for over an hour, and I was so excited
Speaker 1: to come to talk to you and meet you and
Speaker 1: just tell you that you have inspired pink so many people,
Speaker 1: but especially young women, with your tenacity and your forcefulness
Speaker 1: and your unapologetic strength. I actually really apologize a lot,
Speaker 1: believer in the power of apology, only why it's warranted. No,
Speaker 1: I'm but I'm saying back the past. Back in the day,
Speaker 1: women who were strong, emotionally strong, physically strong, determined were
Speaker 1: called the beach word, and and it felt like they
Speaker 1: we we because I started this journey in in the
Speaker 1: early seventies, we had to navigate waters where we constantly
Speaker 1: were apologizing for simply having a dream. And when you
Speaker 1: burst on the scene, it was like, You're like magic.
Speaker 1: You're like Peter Pan and a beautiful strong women's body.
Speaker 1: You know, like you're magical. Well, I mean I know
Speaker 1: that to be true. I mean my both of my mom's,
Speaker 1: my mom and my stepmom were both nurses, and um,
Speaker 1: I I have asked them many times, was this your dream?
Speaker 1: And they said, well it was. There weren't a lot
Speaker 1: of choices for women. Um but they both are nurses
Speaker 1: at heart. But it's interesting. It's like, yeah, I came out,
Speaker 1: I came out with sharp, sharp clause and ideas, and UM,
Speaker 1: I've just I've just was born that way and I
Speaker 1: was raised by a really strong dad who believed in
Speaker 1: change and that change was possible. And I don't know,
Speaker 1: I couldn't be any other way. I love seeing people
Speaker 1: just live truly who they are, live their truth. And
Speaker 1: that's your new project, your new songs, and and the lyrics,
Speaker 1: that's the core. If you were to put it in
Speaker 1: a pot and boil it down to the essence of
Speaker 1: the truth, that's what you just said. To live your truth,
Speaker 1: to live your life authentically is what your music is about.
Speaker 1: It's what your movie is about, it's what your life
Speaker 1: is about. And I appreciate the fact that you don't
Speaker 1: just live that way. You encourage so many other people
Speaker 1: Pink to live that way. I do. I mean, I
Speaker 1: know how, I know the price that it comes. If
Speaker 1: it's really scary and and it's vulnerable, and and you know,
Speaker 1: not everybody has supportive parents or a life that's sort
Speaker 1: of painted in that way where they can just live
Speaker 1: their truth. Right. It's not as easy as it's downs,
Speaker 1: but but my god, is it worth it. It's so
Speaker 1: worth it. Don't tell lies because then you have to
Speaker 1: remember them. And I have a serious memory. Yeah, I
Speaker 1: I learned that the hard way. I used to, you know,
Speaker 1: would spin a tale to make an excuse for something
Speaker 1: I had done. And then you know, two minutes later,
Speaker 1: you forget the tail you just wove. And it's like, dang, dang,
Speaker 1: this is what they meant when they said, just be honest.
Speaker 1: It's easier to remember you you always remember the truth.
Speaker 1: My favorite T shirt is it says I'm sorry I
Speaker 1: was late. I didn't want to come. I should get
Speaker 1: that one from my daughter Seila. I just got her
Speaker 1: one that says under estimate me. That'll be fun. And
Speaker 1: she's like, Mom, I'm not in your face like you are.
Speaker 1: I can't wear this in So what's the what's your
Speaker 1: favorite thing about living on acreage? How how spread out
Speaker 1: are you nature? I love nature. I've always always loved
Speaker 1: nature and animals and we have chickens and horses and
Speaker 1: a dog and a lizard and lots of lots of
Speaker 1: baby birds being born. Soon have you? Have you gotten
Speaker 1: addicted to the bird app that identifies all the birds
Speaker 1: that you can take pictures of. No, but you know
Speaker 1: what I really want to learn, see this is this
Speaker 1: is how different I am now than I was twenty
Speaker 1: years ago. I want to learn what every kind of
Speaker 1: tree is on my property. Okay, so I'm gonna introduce
Speaker 1: you to two fun little tools that um, you know,
Speaker 1: my kids are always like tiktoking it and blah blah
Speaker 1: blaing it. But I have two app that I are
Speaker 1: my go to apps. One is called picture this Picture
Speaker 1: This identifies all the trees on my property. And the
Speaker 1: other one is um the Audubon Society. It's called Merlin
Speaker 1: Bird I D And I'm a geek. I'm taking pictures
Speaker 1: of every bird and every tree on my property and
Speaker 1: then identifying them. And I I love having that knowledge.
Speaker 1: I don't know why I'm a geek. I love it.
Speaker 1: I mean it's I think it's it's just what happens.
Speaker 1: If you get older, you start to appreciate what's around
Speaker 1: you more. And also with global warming, a climate change
Speaker 1: and all the things. It's like you look around and
Speaker 1: you're like, man, this stuff is delicate. We're playing with
Speaker 1: really delicate things. Um. But I also grow grapes. I grow.
Speaker 1: I have an organic vineyard. So I'm very much into
Speaker 1: the moon and the phases of the moon and the
Speaker 1: dynamic farming and all the things. So I will be
Speaker 1: downloading those apples before the shore. You will become addicted.
Speaker 1: I am. I'm up to four feeders now. I started
Speaker 1: identifying birds and then I'm like, oh, wait a minute,
Speaker 1: if I, if I actually put feeders close, then I
Speaker 1: can get better pictures. And then you discover that different
Speaker 1: birds like different kinds of seeds and blah blah blah
Speaker 1: and blieh blah BLI And I don't want to discourage
Speaker 1: the wild turkeys, so you got to feed them on
Speaker 1: the ground. And and I'm pathetic. No, that's not pathetic,
Speaker 1: that's rad. My kids. Hummingbird feeder. Hummingbird feeders are. They're
Speaker 1: so fun to see them and watch them and hear them.
Speaker 1: And if you ever get to see a hummingbird nest,
Speaker 1: it'll blow your mind. It'll blow your mind. They're like
Speaker 1: birds spirit animal because they're very, very aggressive with their love.
Speaker 1: They're very aggressive and they can withstand anything. Do you
Speaker 1: know that. I think it's called the Anna's hummingbird migrates
Speaker 1: like over two thousand miles. Oh yeah, it's like, dude,
Speaker 1: you don't even weigh as much as a thimble and
Speaker 1: you you make it thousands of miles. Yeah, it's amazing,
Speaker 1: very amazing. I am the new proud owner of the
Speaker 1: picture this app. Thank you. There you go. Speaking of
Speaker 1: growing things, Pink, you planted quite the garden of projects lately,
Speaker 1: and it seems like it's harvest time for your career
Speaker 1: right now. I want you to tell us everything right
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Speaker 1: me about I got to watch half of the movie, Um,
Speaker 1: that looked like it was a fun, fun project. Your
Speaker 1: documentary that was twenty nineteen, right, yes, your beautiful Trauma
Speaker 1: World Tour. Gosh, I miss tours, I miss live performances,
Speaker 1: I miss concerts. But the part I I got to
Speaker 1: watch the first part of it, I loved that it
Speaker 1: was showing how how you balance life as a performer,
Speaker 1: a wife, a mama, a boss, an amazing performer, but
Speaker 1: woven in every bit. And I'm assuming these are just
Speaker 1: people stocking you, following you around, that are watching you
Speaker 1: your kids. Your life is so interwoven and interconnected, and
Speaker 1: so few people have the courage to do that. You know,
Speaker 1: they have take your daughter to work day or take
Speaker 1: your kid to work day. I'm like, what the hell
Speaker 1: one day? Seriously, I know, I mean, I feel I
Speaker 1: feel just lucky. I just feel lucky that I get
Speaker 1: to I always wanted to be a runaway and join
Speaker 1: the circus, and so now I'm the ringleader and my
Speaker 1: kids are little circuits kids, and I have a fantastic village.
Speaker 1: I'd say my my number one, Um, I guess the
Speaker 1: thing I'm the most proud of is that I attract,
Speaker 1: for whatever reason, magical human beings, and my kids get
Speaker 1: to grow up with these people and see what it's
Speaker 1: like in real time too, to follow your dreams and
Speaker 1: to be passionate about something that might be a little
Speaker 1: bit outside of the box but whatever normal is supposed
Speaker 1: to be. And here's the cool thing, though, they'll never
Speaker 1: know what that box looks like. You have given them
Speaker 1: this joyous, joy filled, magical, beautiful, passionate experience it's called life,
Speaker 1: or they'll they'll search for that box forever. I don't
Speaker 1: think there's any chance, of hell of that happening, because
Speaker 1: once you've tasted the high wire, once you've spun around
Speaker 1: like you do, how can you ever comfortably, you know,
Speaker 1: live in a box. That's true. I don't think anything
Speaker 1: that has been touched by Pink could ever comfortably fit
Speaker 1: in a small box. I don't think the people that
Speaker 1: have been touched by you professionally, who worked with you,
Speaker 1: I don't think they could ever go back to being normal.
Speaker 1: And what a what a legacy that is. We have
Speaker 1: a lot of fun, we do. I mean, my friends
Speaker 1: and I were laughing the other day, we all we
Speaker 1: took our kids to the beach and we were just
Speaker 1: being totally idious and we're trying to be quiet because
Speaker 1: the kids were all sleeping, and I was like, you
Speaker 1: know what, if anything, our kids will have seen us
Speaker 1: no joy. You know, they will see us laughing, and
Speaker 1: they'll see us having these deep friendships and they'll look
Speaker 1: for that and that's cool. So do you? I love you, Pink.
Speaker 1: Tell me about all I know so far. I watched
Speaker 1: the video. I then went and googled the lyrics because
Speaker 1: I wanted to really drink them in, and then I
Speaker 1: watched it again. Did you? I mean, I'm sure you
Speaker 1: did all of the magic in that video. I'm I'm
Speaker 1: sure came from your heart, your gut. Yeah, I mean
Speaker 1: it's I think it's Dave and I. Dave Myers is
Speaker 1: the director and it's our maybe sixteen video together, and
Speaker 1: he's brilliant, and I just told him it needs to
Speaker 1: be the story of my life. And the theme that
Speaker 1: was very important to me was the field with those
Speaker 1: with my my village, my tribe, my lady um and
Speaker 1: the kids. And other than that he's just a crazy
Speaker 1: person and that he just throws this sane treatments quick. Yeah,
Speaker 1: let's do all of that and then cover me and Sunshine.
Speaker 1: I'm guessing that was all shot at your property because
Speaker 1: the fence, the chickens, You've got barred rock chickens. I
Speaker 1: was checking out your chickens, going, I've got those kinds
Speaker 1: of chickens. Yeah, we get the easter eggs. We love it,
Speaker 1: love it. We'll give your daughter and your son lots
Speaker 1: of love for me. I'm gonna let you go because
Speaker 1: I'm gonna let you go. Be mom. Thank you for
Speaker 1: for your music, thank you for your power, thank you
Speaker 1: for your energy, and thank you for your time today.
Speaker 1: Thank you for your kindness. Pink is an artist I
Speaker 1: have long admired, although I can't believe it's only been
Speaker 1: since two thousand, because it feels like I've been playing
Speaker 1: her music for most of my career. I love how
Speaker 1: open she is about her life and the struggles she
Speaker 1: had when she was young her she has become an
Speaker 1: incredible role model for young and old, advocating for self acceptance,
Speaker 1: self love with the message to celebrate the gift of life,
Speaker 1: however it arrived. I read a quote from her a
Speaker 1: few years ago that said, I didn't expect other people
Speaker 1: to treat me with respect, and I didn't demand it,
Speaker 1: and I didn't have boundaries. I gave my power away
Speaker 1: over and over and over. Well, she's obviously done doing that.
Speaker 1: She seems determined not only to claim her power, but
Speaker 1: to do everything in her power to make sure you
Speaker 1: and I do as well, and she's sharing everything with
Speaker 1: us that she knows so far. Make sure you pick
Speaker 1: up or download All I Know so Far this single,
Speaker 1: the album, and if it's the last thing you do,
Speaker 1: watch the documentary. Thank you for joining me in pink today.
Speaker 1: On Love Someone, I leave you to ponder this question.
Speaker 1: What gift or talent do you have that you're not
Speaker 1: making the most of. Something to think about on the
Speaker 1: rest of your drive to work or from work, as
Speaker 1: you work out, as you walk, as your garden, as
Speaker 1: you do your chores, whatever it is you're doing while
Speaker 1: you join us here. Thank you for this time together.