In a recent interview, singer Charlotte Church claimed that she carried "lot of baggage around my voice, my creativity, my songwriting, my musicianship".
Church made these comments in a recent interview with Izzy Judd on The Music & Meditation podcast for Radio 3 over the weekend. The singer spoke about how she also meditates, and how the impact of being commoditised had on her creativity from a young age.
She said: "In my own personal journey, I found that it has been a journey of me believing in my own creativity. I think that when you get commoditised as such a young person, you know, my own creativity and artistry wasn't really centred at all and so it was actually through setting up other things like The Dreaming [Charlotte’s own retreat centre] that I really started to reclaim my own creativity".
"But it wasn't through music, because I had such a lot of baggage around my voice, my creativity, my songwriting, my musicianship, all of that stuff, but yes through creating other things and birthing through other things into the world it made me go “Ah I'm really good at this. And I really enjoy it!” And then that in turn fed back into the music and voice, and then I'm able to have now, so much more freedom of expression which I'm deeply grateful for", the singer added.
Elsewhere, Charlotte Church also revealed that she often meditates, which she claimed has helped her creativity.
"I think that in general, much like many other people nowadays, my mind and my body and my physiology is trained towards business, non-attention, and my mind is busy [laughs] so I find meditations that are a bit more active, so whether that’s whilst dancing, whilst swimming, there had to be another element in there for me", Church stated.
"And the other thing that I do is that generally through all of those things (maybe not swimming!), I sing. You can just let the body start to make sounds and noises and sort of pick up the melodies, whatever is sort of moving through the ether at the time, in whatever landscape that you're in. So, for me it's a way of throwing my mind a bone. So that actually, my mind is just busy enough to give me a bit of peace in that moment".
Church also went on to explain how this creativity can be hindered by the outside noise in the world.
"I think that when you leave humans alone, they are innately creative. One of my favourite writers on the topic of creativity is Rollo May, he’s got a beautiful book called Courage to Create and he talks about the innate anxiety within creativity, that there is always a friction, there is always a discomfort in that process of creativity, and I find that fascinating", she said.
