Pink is on the June issue of Glamour magazine, and inside, the ridiculously likable 33-year-old singer talks about motherhood, marriage and being a slut.
As you may know, her 2-year-old daughter’s name is Willow Sage; Pink says: “I love the idea that a willow tree cannot be snapped or broken. And we burn sage all the time. It clears bad energy.” Has motherhood had an effect on her? Yes: “Somebody asked Carey how I’ve changed since I had Willow, and he said my claws have sharpened. They got longer, too.”
When it comes to her relationship with Carey Hart, Pink seems to have an excellent concept about what a “good” marriage is: “Are things ever good? I don’t believe that exists. Long-term relationships are an everyday choice. It’s harder to be in a marriage than it is to bounce from one relationship to the next. We’re good because we communicate and we’ve grown up together, not because we don’t fight.”
Also, this exchange is amazing:
GLAMOUR: What’s the last thing you fought about?
PINK: [She yells to the next room.] Carey! What was the last thing we fought about? Oh, I know! You not getting me flowers and being a douchebag. That was it.
GLAMOUR: Flowers? Really? A badass like you wanted flowers?
PINK: He needed to get me flowers after I had a big show. Hear that, Carey? I’m throwing you to 17 million wolves [Glamour readers] right now, buddy.
But the best part is her unapologetic attitude toward sex and her promiscuous past:
GLAMOUR: Speaking of good, you’ve got lots of sex songs on this last album. There’s “Slut Like You” and “Walk of Shame.”
PINK: Oh, yeah. I’m a reformed slut.
GLAMOUR: Slut is a big word in the Pink glossary.
PINK: It’s my very unsophisticated way of taking the power back. I’ve always had an issue with [the idea that]: “OK, we’ve both decided to do this. Why am I a slut and you’re the player? You didn’t get anything from me that I didn’t get from you.”
As an aside: Don’t you just love these photographs by Ellen von Unwerth?
[Glamour]