A speaker describes feeling connected to something larger than herself while acting, channeling an external force when embodying characters. Her ex-husband, a songwriter, experiences songs arriving from outside himself, suggesting both see creativity as transmission from a higher consciousness.
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In interviews, you spoke about connecting to divine energy, right? For inspiration, for the source of all of your accomplishments. What does that feel like to you?
I think that creative people are connected to something bigger than themselves. I mean, I think everybody has the capacity to be connected to something bigger than themselves, but I think for many, many years when I was an actress, um, it's really the way that I was able to transform into playing other people. You know, I felt like I was channeling something from somewhere else. My baby daddy, my ex-husband, always talks about songs sort of arriving to him from somewhere else, and I, I think there's something to that.