I could've written songs about, for example, the Paris attacks as they happened and have the song out the day after, but doing this project and following the news made me realize how much I miss deeper nuances in the news reporting. There's already so many quick opinions and angles being thrown in your face, so I avoided writing about things like that and tried focusing on the smaller, more seemingly insignificant things. The things you would find in the back of the newspaper or the back of your mind.

I think all of my songs are either based on personal experience or will be based on personal experience, because I do write a lot of songs prophetically.

When I was between seven and 13, I hated music. I wasn't interested in music at all. I'd tried to listen to it just because all my friends were getting into pop music and everything, and I remember I just wasn't interested at all. I liked drawing and science.

I kind of like polishing the songs that I'm working on. I'm really working hard on some specific songs.

I didn't have a home in the world, so I wanted a home in a person. I felt like I had found that, and then it was taken away from me.

The fate of a song is often established in the first 15 minutes of writing.

Vocal arrangements are something I'm working a lot with for the new songs.