Why did I choose the name Crone Fires for this website and my pen name? The name came from two things that exist side by side in me. I am older, and a crone is usually an old woman. Crone is not an insult here. She is a figure of wisdom, survival, and may have sharp edges in how she sees and says things. Fires illuminate and transform, and I am also an Aries, which is a fire sign. Together, the Crone and Fire speak to my work: songs that burn through pretense, that carry warmth and danger at once. Not polished to sterility, not afraid of shadow—just alive, and hopefully full of honesty and new perspectives. So I am kind of like your scary grandma.
I write because it's how I make sense of things. I have always written things. Lately, I've found that lyrics and music are how I make sense of things. Let me make this clear from the start: I write the LYRICS, and I use an AI to craft the music. I think that you should be truthful about how you make things. Some of my songs start with a flash, others take weeks of chiseling, but every one of them goes through hard work and editing until the words and music are sharp enough to stand on their own.
