Pink has said she is a firm believer in karma, and to prove it her favorite tattoo is the one that reads “What comes around goes around.”

Pink’s favorite tattoo was created by an artist friend in Philadelphia and reads “What goes around comes around.” As she explains it, “It’s my only truth that never changes. I believe in karma. I believe that it comes around in both ways. I’ve watched really good people have really hard times and then all of a sudden something beautiful happens. I’ve seen instant karma and I’ve seen karma that I think takes lifetimes and I’ve felt a lot of it.”

[From Inked Magazine]

Pink is gloriously inked. She has Kanji characters, which she’s checked, double checked and triple checked to make sure the meanings were correct, that read “good luck and happiness”, “strength”, “the will to live” and “mother”. She also wears a tribute tattoo to her beloved bulldog, Elvis, who accidently drowned in a swimming pool. The only tattoos it sounds like Pink regrets are the pink bows she has on the back of her thighs, which she says she got while she was drunk. I think they sound kind of cute, but “cute” just isn’t Pink’s style.

This is evident in her new cd, intentionally ironically named Funhouse. The album was inspired by the breakdown of her marriage to motorcross racer Carey Hart, so it’s full of anger, sadness, regret and a very strong will.

Pink’s hurt resonates throughout Funhouse, but her lyrics weren’t intended to slam Hart. “When I’m writing the songs it’s just where I’m at. What I’m doing, what I’m reading, what I’m thinking about. This one was different for me. I’ve not been here before in this way… These songs are like wounds… It was too easy to write. There is no edit button. Maybe there should be, but there isn’t with me.”

It’s hard not to look for traces of Hart in every track on Funhouse, such as “Mean” which Pink says is about how relationships change. “Every relationship, whether it ends or not, does that. How did we get so mean? How did I just say that to you? Let’s sit down and come to the love table and be friends again.” Elsewhere on Funhouse she digs deeper into where things went wrong and suggests that perhaps Hart wasn’t there for her enough when she needed him to be. “I don’t know that anyone will be able to give me what I think I need. And, I think I’m a much better friend than anything else,” Pink explains.

Some of the hints about Hart aren’t so subtle. In “So What,” the album’s first single, Pink calls Hart a “tool” and sings “I just lost my husband/I don’t know where he went” and later adds “You weren’t there/You never were.” In the video, she takes a chainsaw to a tree that their initials are carved into. But in a Pink twist, Hart shows up at the end of the video. “The whole world is like, oh she’s a f’ing hypocrite, talking sh*t and I thought it was amicable. And it is, but that’s what I do. I talk sh*t. I talked sh*t to him for six years. I’m not going to stop now.”

[From Inked Magazine]

Pink says that even though her music might suggest differently, she is still very much in love with Carey Hart and things between them aren’t resolved. The album was a way of dealing with something she didn’t want to happen, but for whatever reason had to happen. When I first heard “So What” I was surprised that there would be such public animosity coming from her about him. From what I saw of Hart on The Surreal Life he seems like a genuinely decent person and I just didn’t picture him as the “tool” type. When I saw the video to the song, and him in it, hugging her, playing it up with her, I realized, this was just an outlet for her, a way to find her way through losing her husband that she honestly wishes would have turned out differently. And he understands it, and it was moving to me. I’ve never put energy into wishing and hoping celebrity couples reconcile, but I’m breaking my rule on this one.