Exclusive Interview: Rocker Fefe Dobson on her fears, her music and her dad

We heard about your fear of contacts and how you performed legally blind, so what other fears do you have and how do you overcome them?

Any other fears?… walking alone at night sometimes. I have fears. My main fear is not being a good person, really. I’m very conscious of how I treat people. I never want to hurt someone so that’s a fear of mine, like hurting someone. How do I overcome fears? I think just like growing up, you learn from mistakes. That helps with those internal fears. Also positive thinking really does help. I tell people in my life, everyday look in the mirror and tell yourself, you’re beautiful, you’re awesome. Get rid of those emotional fears. That was told to me once when I was really young, by one of my band members. So I just pass that on. A lot of times our fears are just created, first of all because of the unknown and also we’re hard ourselves as human beings. There’s ways to kind of clear your mind.

…I just realized I have a fear of losing my teeth! I know there’s technology now, that can give me new teeth. But I always dream that my baby teeth, that I still have my baby teeth that they come out in my dream and then I realize they’re not my baby teeth, that they’re actually grown up teeth and I’ll never get them back. That freaks me out! That scares me. That’s my nerdy fear.

What other type of message would you like to send to younger girls who are watching you?

There’s a thing right now on the internet, now we see artists that we look up to, putting pictures of themselves naked on the internet. These young girls are so influenced by their idols and people they look up to musically. I always just tell young girls, respect your body and love yourself. Like I said tell yourself you’re beautiful. It’s really hard because young, young girls want to wear little shorts, protect yourself. It’s a world out there, if you don’t love yourself, no one else will.

What do you see yourself doing in the next 5-10 years, what is your dream for your career?

To get to a point where I’m selling out my own tours. I would love that. That’s the goal. And by doing that reaching more masses, more people and telling my story, hearing other people’s stories, sharing stories and hopefully making tons more albums.