“I am a sucker for an old pair of Levi’s and a worn-out shirt.”
― Domino Kirke
“What I learned is that it’s very hard to have both a family life and a touring life simultaneously.”
― Domino Kirke
“I’m still a really shy performer and can’t wear high heels and need to be with bare feet.”
― Domino Kirke
“I’ve just always loved babies, even when I was a baby.”
― Domino Kirke
“I feel like doulas put the ball back in the mom’s court. They trust you to normalize the high drama.”
― Domino Kirke
“I’m obsessed with any kind of floral print.”
― Domino Kirke
“I love a jumpsuit, and I have a bunch of them. I’m known for wearing them like a uniform.”
― Domino Kirke
“Being in a band was so fun and exciting, but I was just kind of focusing more on performance and wasn’t really writing the songs – I didn’t really think I had a voice.”
― Domino Kirke
“I didn’t set out to write pop hits.”
― Domino Kirke
“When I met Penn, he was an actor, but he wasn’t working, and he wasn’t sure if he wanted to go back to work, and I was kind of into that!”
― Domino Kirke
“I got to play with incredible musicians, but it happened really fast. I couldn’t believe it was all happening, and so by the time I was, like 18, 19, I sort of took a break and was just like, ‘I’m not ready for this.’”
― Domino Kirke
“Mark Ronson was a dear friend through family and through growing up in New York, being in that scene, and Mark came to a show and really liked it and asked us to join his record label Allido records, or ‘all I do’ records, and that was sort of a development deal.”
― Domino Kirke
“No one listens to CDs anymore. Who even owns a CD? I used to bring my CDs to shows, and it was, like, a guarantee that everyone would buy one. Nope! Not anymore.”
― Domino Kirke
“I was sort of getting used to being a single mom, maybe a little too used to it.”
― Domino Kirke
“I got married, and it was a bit of a whirlwind I wasn’t expecting for the next phase for Penn and I.”
― Domino Kirke
“Penn and I want to write a record together.”
― Domino Kirke
“I’ve always put out EPs because I had a kid and never had the time to tour and do what it takes to support a record.”
― Domino Kirke
“My son’s birth was pretty life-shattering, in good ways and bad ways. I realized that I needed a doula because I’m not close to my mom, and I don’t have a lot of people in New York.”
― Domino Kirke
“I’m not like, ‘I’m a famous doula.’ I’m a doula. I’m trying to find a way to get rid of the stigma around ‘You’re the singer; You’re the actor’ – we have to be able to do more than one thing.”
― Domino Kirke
“I was always interested in becoming a midwife. Then, at my own birth, I didn’t get the support I’d hoped for, and that changed everything. That’s why I became a doula. There’s such a need.”
― Domino Kirke
“Being a full-time musician back before I had my son, it was sort of too much ‘me’ all the time. I felt like a bit of a narcissist, always doing just my art – even though I feel like artists are doing a service as well. I needed something a little more literal, instead of writing music and hoping people enjoyed it.”
― Domino Kirke
“Growing up, I feel like my character was so much about being a problem-solver and a truth-seeker and always needing to get to the bottom of everything.”
― Domino Kirke
“The idea of windows, that’s so symbolic to me within labor. And I’m always opening windows during a birth. If someone’s been in labor all night and they’re exhausted and sort of over it, opening a window or drawing a curtain can change the game. And sometimes the doula is the first one to suggest it.”
― Domino Kirke
“I had, like, four Sigur Ros records on my playlist when I was in labor.”
― Domino Kirke
“I moved to the States from London when I was 12 years old. My father was in a band and wanted to tour, so we moved here, but it wasn’t until I moved to Williamsburg and had my son that I felt like I finally belonged.”
― Domino Kirke
“I grew up always around music through my father – I would play in music studios with him as I was growing up – and my high school, Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School of Music and Art and Performing Arts.”
― Domino Kirke
“I put on a little bit more makeup when I perform.”
― Domino Kirke
“Lipstick just makes me feel like I can’t talk, like I am going to suffocate – like I’ve been locked in a cupboard and can’t get out. I’m so aware of it.”
― Domino Kirke
“I grew up around a lot of artists and people passing through. I learned so much from them. I felt the safest with them – and the most endangered.”
― Domino Kirke
“I had to learn to respect the relationship my son had with his father outside of the three of us.”
― Domino Kirke
“’In Ear Park’ perfectly encapsulates the beauty of youth for me.”
― Domino Kirke
“Big Thief is destined for greatness.”
― Domino Kirke
“I have always been more of a truth-seeking person since I was quite young.”
― Domino Kirke
“Though I always experimented with electronic music in the past, I wasn’t invested in that sound. My heart has always been in folk. That’s my home.”
― Domino Kirke
“The work I do when I’m not making music is very much about service, helping women give birth or aiding in family planning.”
― Domino Kirke
“People should listen to my music if they just want to know me better.”
― Domino Kirke
“I try to wear a dress and heels when I want to make more of an effort and be a bit more feminine.”
― Domino Kirke
“One of the expectations growing up was that I’d become a well-known artist.”
― Domino Kirke
“In my family, it was always encouraged to become a creative person. I became a doula instead, then I married an actor, and my sisters became famous almost overnight.”
― Domino Kirke
“My dad was such a music fan that the only way to really hang out with him was to sit in a room and listen to music.”
― Domino Kirke
“I think when you come from a house full of artists, everyone’s got their niche.”
― Domino Kirke
“I felt this pressure to just be the singer in my family or the musician in my family. But once I had my son, I was like, ‘No, I can do all of it.’”
― Domino Kirke
“When I sing, I feel calm.”
― Domino Kirke
“Listeners can expect to feel very relaxed during the listening experience of ‘Beyond Waves.’ The songs are very lyrical and extremely intimate, so I feel like you’re going to need to be in a quiet room when you hear them, at least the first time.”
― Domino Kirke
“Music is everything.”
― Domino Kirke
“I knew from a very young age that I wanted to be in that world. But I also understood that being a touring musician meant that you’d be gone a lot and that was going to make other things a lot harder, like having a family.”
― Domino Kirke
“I toured. I played, I was in that world so intensely, and then I had to bow out.”
― Domino Kirke
“I was always interested in midwifery; it was my plan B.”
― Domino Kirke
“I grew up in a family where my father was in a rock band, and I saw and heard every story.”
― Domino Kirke
“I just believe pregnant women need a familiar face, someone who isn’t related to them who they may have all this emotional past with, to be there, just for them, during the birth.”
― Domino Kirke
“My family realized I was going to do birth work and then music; they were like, ‘What’s a doula? This is not what you were meant to do!’ And I was like, ‘Everyone thinks they can only do one thing.’”
― Domino Kirke
“The minute I had him, my son, I realized that I had to just time-manage in a way that I never had to before.”
― Domino Kirke
“It’s weird. I went so far away from music that I had to re-invent music again. I had to come back to music. I had to put music with an agenda down and at least write for my son, write to keep writing, but the idea of having a music career had to go away for a while.”
― Domino Kirke
“It’s two different brains: the mom brain that’s, like, selfless and ego-free, and the on-stage ‘Look at me. Like, listen to my song. Hope you like it.’ There, it is all ego.”
― Domino Kirke
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