33 questions

 1. What is the first creative moment you remember?

I remember dancing around and making up random lyircs to music on the radio.

 2. Was anyone there to witness or appreciate it? 

Yep, it's on YouTube.

3. What is the best idea you've ever had? 

I typically get good ideas in the classroom setting or usually lyrics for songs.

4. What made it great in your mind? 

I loved the connection of the lyrics to the music.

5. What is the dumbest idea? 

Umm, I've had a lot of those...

6. What made it stupid?

There was probably a list of reasons.

 7. Can you connect the dots that led you to this idea? 

I was probably trying to come up with an idea to fix something.

8. What is your creative ambition?

singing/songwriting

 9. What are the obstacles to this ambition? 

writer's block / people not liking my genre of music

10. What are the vital steps to achieving this ambition? 

time...looking for inspiration in everything, and when a creative idea strikes, I drop everything and focus on only the lyrics or melody in front of me

11. How do you begin your day? 

i wake up to my alarm, brush my teeth, get changed, do my hair, put on chapstick, grab my bags and leave for school

12. What are your habits? What patterns do you repeat? 

I always take my phone out of the case every night, set my alarms (every 5 minutes from 6:30-7) and put it on the charger

13. Describe your first successful creative act. 

I was very proud of myself when I completed my first ever full song (I have not played it in a while, but it was super fun to perform when I was younger)

14. Describe your second successful creative act. 

I play soccer, and I am a goalie. Because of this, I usually love to express my character through my color choice of jersey, gloves, socks etc. (if I have the choice) or by the way I come out of the goal aggressively in games

15. Compare them. 

Both of these things are creative in their own ways, and they both show different sides of me as a person

16. What are your attitudes toward: money, power, praise, rivals, work, play? 

I am a very aggressive person when it comes to sports, and I typically get very embarrassed with praise. With rivals, I bite my tongue and smile at them anyways, and I am the kind of person that will use my money to pay for the person behind me in line at a coffee shop.

17. Which artists do you admire most? 

I mostly admire musicians such as LeAnn Rimes, Luke Combs, and Toylor Swift

18. Why are they your role models? 

They have all been very successful in the music business because of hard work and effort

19. What do you and your role models have in common? 

All of our lives revolve around music

20. Does anyone in your life regularly inspire you? 

My parents both inspire me to work hard everyday because my dad is a healthcare worker and has had to deal with a lot of rude patients in the dental office throughout the course of his career, and especially through COVID. My mom inspires me because she has 4 different jobs and hardly ever has time to herself, but when she has a few extra minutes of free time, she always makes sure to spend time with our family and help me with music advice

21. Who is your muse? 

Honestly, it depends on the day

22. Define muse. 

The source of inspiration for an artist

23. When confronted with superior intelligence or talent, how do you respond? 

I usually say "thank you" about a million times and compliment the other person about something.

24. When faced with stupidity, hostility, intransigence, laziness, or indifference in others, how do you respond? 

I usually ask for whomever's perspective on whatever we may be doing, because sometimes knowing both points of view will help to reason with people

25. When faced with impending success or threat of failure, how do you respond? 

I typically either get super excited or nervous or cry

26. When you work, do you love the process or the result? 

It depends. There's a song that I wrote that I absolutely love and wish I could go back in time to relive the feeling of coming up with and writing all of the lyrics to, because the feeling of the flow and the melodic transitions and feel of the music was transending. I do love the result, but I also wish the process could be continuous.

27. At what moments do you feel your reach exceeds your grasp? 

When I am working with people who are not on the same level on  topic as I am

28. What is your ideal creative activity? 

having a lot of things happening in the background and being able to concentrate on individual, tiny details that could make a world of a difference in a song

29. What is your greatest fear? 

falling 

30. What is the likelihood of either of the answers to the previous two questions happening? 

for number 28, that is easy for me to accomplish in any pubice space, but for number 28, I guess I just have to see what path life leads me down, and if I take the wrong roads at some point, I will have to figure out a way back onto the right track

31. Which of your answers would you most like to change? 

5

32. What is your idea of mastery? 

Mastery is not working until you achieving your goal, it's repeating that level of mastery over and over again until you can't get it worng

33. What is your greatest dream?

I want to be Sofia Nunzia, singer, songwriter, and scientist. I want people to hear my music and understand the message, but I also want to pursue a career in my favorite subject.

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