![]() And it meant a lot to get to talk about that in this song and felt like a really special beginning to the friendship.” To be able to say how we were doing, talking to each other through that period of not feeling fine as an entire globe-I think it's just so important to have those people in your life. “I was living in my apartment by myself at the time, looking at a stack of invitations for some friends’ weddings, just going through that season of life where it feels like everyone else is finding their person. And I wanted to write something about how it can feel on the other side of that sometimes. I think being alone, sometimes it seems like you're the only other person on the planet who feels that way.” As we were writing it, I was like, ‘Wow, this is scary, how honest this feels and how vulnerable this feels, but I'm doing it.’ And it was so therapeutic as we were working through the verses. “I wrote this song over Zoom with my friends Mags Duval and Dan Wilson. And I literally was like, ‘I am going crazy in my house by myself,’ like hearing the traffic going by the window and watching the rain and the washing machine in my house. All of these things are actual things that I was talking about, the sounds in my house that were driving me insane. I think there's something so profound about the quiet, as a creative person. It's so necessary, I think, to be able to retreat into that quiet place. It's imperative, as a writer, to be able to spend time alone.” And I do believe that's the birthplace of so many ideas and those reflective emotions that come out of that time. “We've all got those voices in our own heads that we often hear the loudest. ![]()
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