The BEST conversations I have with my guests are those that happen on-the-fly. Unscripted, with little planning, and straight from the heart. Like today's podcast with P!NK! It was so unexpected.
She pulled over, with kids Willow and Jameson in the back seat, to spend a little minute with us. We chatted about her new single - and the fantastic documentary created from filming her 2019 world tour - "All I Know So Far." Turns out she knows quite a lot! Like how to be true to yourself, how to give yourself grace, and how to pour yourself into your passions. You won't want to miss this sweet episode! ~ Delilah
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Hi there, Welcome back to Love Someone with Delilah. Did it feel to you like it did to me that we lived through through parts of almost in black and white? Life just seemed that way, especially early last year dull devoid of color pizzazz. Remember how the movie The Wizard of Oz started out in black and white and then changed to living technicolor when Dorothy got to Oz. Well, lately, with June busting out all over, I'm starting to feel like like color, like vibrant color, like life is returning to the world, and it is an absolutely glorious sensation. Have I stepped into the land of Oz? Probably not yet. Every bloom in my garden seems to be more saturated, more vibrant, more live, just just more more than it's ever been before. It feels like we're coming out of the gray and into the light of life. And I am simply tickled pink about that. You know what else, I'm tickled over Today's guest on Love Someone. Since her debut in two thousand, she's released eight studio albums, She's had fifteen singles in the top ten of the Billboard Hot one, and she has sold out arenas all over the world. She got three Grammy Awards on a bookshelf setting at Home, along with a Daytime Emmy, seven MTV Video Music Awards, and was named Billboards Woman of the Year. In most recently, she received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame as well as the Brits Outstanding Contribution to Music Award, the first international artists to receive this honor. She is talented, She is gorgeous, She is bold, She is unapologetic and a hot, hot, hot ticket these days, and we are lucky enough to get to share a little bit of time with her. We will be right back with pink ladies and gentlemen after I give a minute of time to one of my fabulous podcast sponsors, without whom we wouldn't even get to have these incredible conversations with one another. 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You know, for years it was why why why Delilah? And and then thank God the flame white tease fix that. So now at least I get something a little, you know, less murderous than than Tom Jones. Welcome aboard. You've got so many prod checks in the work, so many things that I want to talk about, your your songs that we're playing, and the movie. But first I want to hear about your kids, your mom's heart. I want to hear about your farm, your land. I want to hear about about those things before we delve into the you know, the radio stuff. Well, my kids are good. They're sitting in the backseat as we speak. Willow and Jamison. How old are they now? Willow likes to say that even though she's nine weeks three weeks. Come on, mom, don't rush, sweetheart, don't rush growing up of the trap. So yeah, and Jamison four, congratulations. I know that everything I've read, everything I've seen, everything I've heard you talking about. Um, I saw you what on a morning show the other day. I saw you and Ellen and everything just rings so loud, lee was so much love from your mama's heart. And and that's that's where I live full time. And I know you lived there too, So that's it right there, that's the thing that matters. Um. So yeah, I mean I I do feel like my life is just full of love right now. Would you have thought paying ten, fifteen years ago, twenty years ago, where you were at in life, that having kids, being a mama bear would change you in the miraculous, beautiful ways that it has. No, I you can't know, right. I mean, I have a lot of friends that have decided not to have children, and I think that's, you know, a brave choice in a different way. But you can't know the feeling until it happens, and you can't know how you're going to feel about it either, you know. So I feel like I hit the lottery with these kids. I feel like it's just this. It's changed the way I look at the world, like I get to just play all the time and be silly and love so deeply. I'm share all the stuff, you know. I remember when I gave birth to my firstborn, who's who's close and age to you now. I remember holding him and looking at him and going I didn't know how much I was loved until I had him and went, WHOA if God, if the universe believes that I am capable of raising the most perfect child I'd ever not in my life. And I knew that in the instant he was born. I knew that our our souls were meant to be together. I was like, oh my gosh, everything just changed, Everything changed forever. You sound like a really really soulful mama like you, I am a really, really really blessed mama, and I right now at my house upstairs, I came I have a studio in my house, I came downstairs. I have three of my grandkids and four of my my kid kids who are still young, still at home, all playing in a teeny tiny, little plastic kiddie pool in the backyard, and you're well, I I was up there for over an hour, and I was so excited to come to talk to you and meet you and just tell you that you have inspired pink so many people, but especially young women, with your tenacity and your forcefulness and your unapologetic strength. I actually really apologize a lot, believer in the power of apology, only why it's warranted. No, I'm but I'm saying back the past. Back in the day, women who were strong, emotionally strong, physically strong, determined were called the beach word, and and it felt like they we we because I started this journey in in the early seventies, we had to navigate waters where we constantly were apologizing for simply having a dream. And when you burst on the scene, it was like, You're like magic. You're like Peter Pan and a beautiful strong women's body. You know, like you're magical. Well, I mean I know that to be true. I mean my both of my mom's, my mom and my stepmom were both nurses, and um, I I have asked them many times, was this your dream? And they said, well it was. There weren't a lot of choices for women. Um but they both are nurses at heart. But it's interesting. It's like, yeah, I came out, I came out with sharp, sharp clause and ideas, and UM, I've just I've just was born that way and I was raised by a really strong dad who believed in change and that change was possible. And I don't know, I couldn't be any other way. I love seeing people just live truly who they are, live their truth. And that's your new project, your new songs, and and the lyrics, that's the core. If you were to put it in a pot and boil it down to the essence of the truth, that's what you just said. To live your truth, to live your life authentically is what your music is about. It's what your movie is about, it's what your life is about. And I appreciate the fact that you don't just live that way. You encourage so many other people Pink to live that way. I do. I mean, I know how, I know the price that it comes. If it's really scary and and it's vulnerable, and and you know, not everybody has supportive parents or a life that's sort of painted in that way where they can just live their truth. Right. It's not as easy as it's downs, but but my god, is it worth it. It's so worth it. Don't tell lies because then you have to remember them. And I have a serious memory. Yeah, I I learned that the hard way. I used to, you know, would spin a tale to make an excuse for something I had done. And then you know, two minutes later, you forget the tail you just wove. And it's like, dang, dang, this is what they meant when they said, just be honest. It's easier to remember you you always remember the truth. My favorite T shirt is it says I'm sorry I was late. I didn't want to come. I should get that one from my daughter Seila. I just got her one that says under estimate me. That'll be fun. And she's like, Mom, I'm not in your face like you are. I can't wear this in So what's the what's your favorite thing about living on acreage? How how spread out are you nature? I love nature. I've always always loved nature and animals and we have chickens and horses and a dog and a lizard and lots of lots of baby birds being born. Soon have you? Have you gotten addicted to the bird app that identifies all the birds that you can take pictures of. No, but you know what I really want to learn, see this is this is how different I am now than I was twenty years ago. I want to learn what every kind of tree is on my property. Okay, so I'm gonna introduce you to two fun little tools that um, you know, my kids are always like tiktoking it and blah blah blaing it. But I have two app that I are my go to apps. One is called picture this Picture This identifies all the trees on my property. And the other one is um the Audubon Society. It's called Merlin Bird I D And I'm a geek. I'm taking pictures of every bird and every tree on my property and then identifying them. And I I love having that knowledge. I don't know why I'm a geek. I love it. I mean it's I think it's it's just what happens. If you get older, you start to appreciate what's around you more. And also with global warming, a climate change and all the things. It's like you look around and you're like, man, this stuff is delicate. We're playing with really delicate things. Um. But I also grow grapes. I grow. I have an organic vineyard. So I'm very much into the moon and the phases of the moon and the dynamic farming and all the things. So I will be downloading those apples before the shore. You will become addicted. I am. I'm up to four feeders now. I started identifying birds and then I'm like, oh, wait a minute, if I, if I actually put feeders close, then I can get better pictures. And then you discover that different birds like different kinds of seeds and blah blah blah and blieh blah BLI And I don't want to discourage the wild turkeys, so you got to feed them on the ground. And and I'm pathetic. No, that's not pathetic, that's rad. My kids. Hummingbird feeder. Hummingbird feeders are. They're so fun to see them and watch them and hear them. And if you ever get to see a hummingbird nest, it'll blow your mind. It'll blow your mind. They're like birds spirit animal because they're very, very aggressive with their love. They're very aggressive and they can withstand anything. Do you know that. I think it's called the Anna's hummingbird migrates like over two thousand miles. Oh yeah, it's like, dude, you don't even weigh as much as a thimble and you you make it thousands of miles. Yeah, it's amazing, very amazing. I am the new proud owner of the picture this app. Thank you. There you go. Speaking of growing things, Pink, you planted quite the garden of projects lately, and it seems like it's harvest time for your career right now. I want you to tell us everything right after I give one of my sponsors a shout out for nurturing this podcast along. The Home Depot is one of our podcast sponsors. Today, the Red, White, and Blue event at the Home Depot is underway. Get more out of summer with more from the Home Depot along with Fourth of July savings. Whether you're ready to paint a wall, upgrade and appliance, fire up a new grille, or spread color throughout your garden, the Home Depot can help you match low prices with your high expectations for your next project, the home Depot. How doers get more done? So tell me about I got to watch half of the movie, Um, that looked like it was a fun, fun project. Your documentary that was twenty nineteen, right, yes, your beautiful Trauma World Tour. Gosh, I miss tours, I miss live performances, I miss concerts. But the part I I got to watch the first part of it, I loved that it was showing how how you balance life as a performer, a wife, a mama, a boss, an amazing performer, but woven in every bit. And I'm assuming these are just people stocking you, following you around, that are watching you your kids. Your life is so interwoven and interconnected, and so few people have the courage to do that. You know, they have take your daughter to work day or take your kid to work day. I'm like, what the hell one day? Seriously, I know, I mean, I feel I feel just lucky. I just feel lucky that I get to I always wanted to be a runaway and join the circus, and so now I'm the ringleader and my kids are little circuits kids, and I have a fantastic village. I'd say my my number one, Um, I guess the thing I'm the most proud of is that I attract, for whatever reason, magical human beings, and my kids get to grow up with these people and see what it's like in real time too, to follow your dreams and to be passionate about something that might be a little bit outside of the box but whatever normal is supposed to be. And here's the cool thing, though, they'll never know what that box looks like. You have given them this joyous, joy filled, magical, beautiful, passionate experience it's called life, or they'll they'll search for that box forever. I don't think there's any chance, of hell of that happening, because once you've tasted the high wire, once you've spun around like you do, how can you ever comfortably, you know, live in a box. That's true. I don't think anything that has been touched by Pink could ever comfortably fit in a small box. I don't think the people that have been touched by you professionally, who worked with you, I don't think they could ever go back to being normal. And what a what a legacy that is. We have a lot of fun, we do. I mean, my friends and I were laughing the other day, we all we took our kids to the beach and we were just being totally idious and we're trying to be quiet because the kids were all sleeping, and I was like, you know what, if anything, our kids will have seen us no joy. You know, they will see us laughing, and they'll see us having these deep friendships and they'll look for that and that's cool. So do you? I love you, Pink. Tell me about all I know so far. I watched the video. I then went and googled the lyrics because I wanted to really drink them in, and then I watched it again. Did you? I mean, I'm sure you did all of the magic in that video. I'm I'm sure came from your heart, your gut. Yeah, I mean it's I think it's Dave and I. Dave Myers is the director and it's our maybe sixteen video together, and he's brilliant, and I just told him it needs to be the story of my life. And the theme that was very important to me was the field with those with my my village, my tribe, my lady um and the kids. And other than that he's just a crazy person and that he just throws this sane treatments quick. Yeah, let's do all of that and then cover me and Sunshine. I'm guessing that was all shot at your property because the fence, the chickens, You've got barred rock chickens. I was checking out your chickens, going, I've got those kinds of chickens. Yeah, we get the easter eggs. We love it, love it. We'll give your daughter and your son lots of love for me. I'm gonna let you go because I'm gonna let you go. Be mom. Thank you for for your music, thank you for your power, thank you for your energy, and thank you for your time today. Thank you for your kindness. Pink is an artist I have long admired, although I can't believe it's only been since two thousand, because it feels like I've been playing her music for most of my career. I love how open she is about her life and the struggles she had when she was young her she has become an incredible role model for young and old, advocating for self acceptance, self love with the message to celebrate the gift of life, however it arrived. I read a quote from her a few years ago that said, I didn't expect other people to treat me with respect, and I didn't demand it, and I didn't have boundaries. I gave my power away over and over and over. Well, she's obviously done doing that. She seems determined not only to claim her power, but to do everything in her power to make sure you and I do as well, and she's sharing everything with us that she knows so far. Make sure you pick up or download All I Know so Far this single, the album, and if it's the last thing you do, watch the documentary. Thank you for joining me in pink today. On Love Someone, I leave you to ponder this question. What gift or talent do you have that you're not making the most of. Something to think about on the rest of your drive to work or from work, as you work out, as you walk, as your garden, as you do your chores, whatever it is you're doing while you join us here. Thank you for this time together.