I’ve always been really expressive with my words
and found that when speaking failed me, I always found writing to be the thing that helped me to express what I thought.”
Not everyone has the ability to express them- selves as clearly as you do lyrically and through your music. Would you say that sensitive nature is something you were born with, or did it develop over time? Thank you. That might be a question for my mom (Laughs). I’ve always been really expressive with my words and found that when speaking failed me, I always found writing to be the thing that helped me to express what I thought. I’ve been able to hone songwriting, but it was always writing in general, that I loved. Being able to hone it into a song, especially with melody is even more exciting because I think that music and music with a melody is something special. Pop music can almost be a dangerous thing, because if it’s melodic and people can sing to it—and it’s got a message—I feel like you are able to change perspectives and that’s exciting to me. You can hear in the album that you were going through an evolutionary process. The way the songs are lined up, it’s almost like witnessing the stages of grieving. Is that something you planned? That’s so cool to hear and I’m glad you caught on
to that. It’s what I’m hoping for and is kind of how I tried to sequence the record. I put out a couple singles and they kind of hit some of the angry side of the record. Hopefully, when people hear the rest of the record they, like you said, hear the range of emotions around what it’s like to go through that sort of a transition or crisis, if you will. Can you talk about when that perspective changed for you? The specific point at which you decided what you were going to do next? I was the angriest when the November policy was
put out by the LDS church. It affected my spiritual sense because I felt like the rug had been pulled out from under me. This thing that I went out and preached for and tried to make work, even though it was sort of a square peg, round hole my entire life. I felt betrayed by it and that’s when I felt anger. It’s just been over the last year, meeting new people who speak my language and know where I was coming from, that allowed me to be able to write the album. Then, releasing the video for “Trash” and subsequent songs since then, it’s just been a journey of emotions. But like today, I’m not having the best day and
that’s part of what I am hoping to point out. That it doesn’t just automatically go from angry to happy and that’s it. We go back to angry and we go
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