Her – “We met on a dance floor.”
Him – “At Ecstatic Dance in Oakland. We both have a lot of love of movement and community. We really connected on the dance floor. Those meetings were really fun and high energy. It was like, ‘Oh. Who are you’?”
Her – “David was in this phase of monkey conditioning so he was dancing like a monkey and it really fun. We started talking after dance and I asked him if he wanted to remix some of my songs. He was constantly touring and really busy but he said, ‘Maybe’. We finally made a date to work on a song together and a couple days before his computer broke so we went on a hike instead…then we went on more hikes.”

“You connection seems so fluid and effortless, it’s really nice to be around. I would imagine like any relationship from time to time difficult things come up, what’s one thing you have struggled with as a couple and found a way to overcome?”
Him – “When I think about our biggest challenges it’s having to hold so many things. We’re best friends, we’re in an intimate relationship, we’re musical partners, we live together-
Her – “We tour together, we eat together-
Him – “There’s a lot of David and Ayla. We’re going on 3 years and in the past year we’ve made a decisive effort to reignite our own personal activities. Now we make sure there’s time to focus on ourselves to reclaim the independence that can sometimes get lost in relationship.”
Her – “Sovereignty. I think the particular path we have, interfacing with a lot of people, the many things that can come from that can pull us from our center, whether it’s people, or fame, we have this ability to mirror to each other ‘Hey, stay in your center.’ I would say that’s a definitely a challenge, but we’ve been able to help each other do that. That could be having alone time, or having together time, or saying no to something.”