Chynna Phillips
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Phillips: "I always tell my kids make your vocation your vacation."
Phillips: "I wish there was just like a magic drug that made my brain not think at all sometimes, because I ruminate about things that are clearly out of my control, like the second coming."
Phillips: "I've always been down-to-earth about money."
Phillips: "I want to work on not reloading in life, but actually pausing to hear what people have to say and digesting it. See it from somebody else's perspective, or at least try. And understand why they're annoyed, why they're hurt."
Phillips: “I never imagined in a million years that anyone would be interested in me with very little makeup on, walking down the street with my dog, talking about my relationship with Jesus. But I realize now what people want is just integrity and transparency. They want to get to know you. They feel like you’re their friend.”
Phillips: "Sorry, Jesus, I have to curse!"
Phillips: “I can’t even talk to people after a show sometimes, because I feel this really incredible surge of power that runs through my body that I don’t get through anything else. I mean, I could meditate on a mountaintop for three days and I don’t think I would get the same feeling.”
Phillips: "I'm not an avocado, I can't make everybody happy."
Phillips: “Before I post something, I’ll get this surge of fear or I’ll feel really shaky on the inside, like, ‘Oh, you can’t post that, you’re letting people see too much.’ And I know when I feel that way before I post something, that it’s probably going to be one of my best videos.”
[On suffering with addiction and getting clean at 19]
Phillips: “I just remember looking at myself and thinking, ‘If I keep doing this, I’m gonna die.’ I was petite and had five bleeding ulcers the year before. I was really sick.”
Phillips: "Yeah I don't drink too much caffeine. If I drink too much caffeine, I'd definitely go to the dark side."
Phillips: "When you really care about somebody and you know they're going through a hard time, is there really a real excuse to not pick up the phone and check in on them, or even send some supportive text messages or something? It just made me question whether I need that kind of friend in my life. I guess I'm doing a lot of that lately I guess I'm just really thinking a lot about who I'm inviting into my life."
Phillips: "I've got so many blessings in my life."
Phillips: "Sometimes I just don't have time for prayer and I need to recharge my spiritual battery, so I'll think to myself 'okay I'll just do a 15 second prayer' and then I'll think 'well why don't I just record it and maybe somebody else would do it with me?' and sure enough it's been working out nicely. People have been enjoying their 15 second prayers!"
Phillips: "It comes down to patterns, you know? If like ,you're seeing a pattern in your friendship that's like that, then maybe it's time to question, you know, if they're constantly canceling on you last minute, and it's always kind of the same excuse like 'I'm so sorry honey, something just came up,'. I don't know, it's a conundrum, or maybe it's not, maybe it's as simple as 'yeah you don't need friends like that in your life' or 'get over yourself, people have lives and it's not all about you,'? Is there anything in between?"
Phillips: "A psychic once read my palm and told me I was my mother's mother in a past life. Isn't that weird?"
[On creating a Patreon for her YouTube channel]
Phillips: "I wanted to just expound a little bit more on this Patreon, and I just wanted to make sure that you guys don't interpret the reason I'm doing this in the wrong way, I guess I'm feeling very insecure about that. I would never want you to think that I'm a money hungry person because that's not what this is about."
Phillips: "I just think to myself, like, who wouldn't love Jesus? Who wouldn't love what he did and what he stood for and what he preached? So beautiful and so true, and he was so perfect in every way. And we're so imperfect."
Phillips: "Nothing is more gratifying as a Christian believer than being able to thread my faith and love for Jesus into my music."
[On her husband needing to get a vasectomy]
Phillips: "He thinks I'm kidding, but he's got a really big reality to face after the show's over. I have pushed out three kids, it's his turn... It's time for him to get a vasectomy. He's got to grow up and get snipped."
Phillips: "My husband has never been abusive in any way, but he's six foot two and intense, so when he expresses himself, it can be very intimidating. I shut down, like I'm a five year old mentally."
Phillips: "I've got the Lord on board."