You look at Taylor Swift, and every 'i' is dotted, every story is finished.
Phoebe Bridgers
When I'm writing, I try to think about what would make a song better before worrying about personal opinions.
I'm obsessed with Elliott Smith, which is very common knowledge.
But me writing sad songs doesn't mean I am a sad person.
People are realising that vulnerability isn't a weakness, and the rise of mental health-related humour is making vulnerability feel like a strength.
I'm marrying everybody I fall in love with.
I love Sylvan Esso. I want to bring in more electronic elements, but also some analogue stuff. Stuff like '70s drum machines really fascinates me.
The more specific you are about a very general feeling of loneliness is actually how you connect with people.
I didn't go to college and I worked so I could play music. That was my goal.
We're all guilty of slacktivism, or of feeling like a savior for taking two seconds of your day to think about someone else.
I have this thing in the back of my brain that dares me to think of the most disturbing thing.
Because I write what I feel the most heavy about. So if there is one day of the week when I feel completely crushed by existential dread, I'll end up writing about it, not the great day I had at the park with my friends. I hope it resonates with people - and it does, with some.
Sometimes I just need somebody to tell me a bunch of ideas I don't like, so that I can figure out what it is I actually want.
The Replacements don't sound like The Replacements half the time!
Once in a blue moon I'll have some sort of concept song or it will be about a bunch of different things, but yeah, it's all from experiences.
There is nothing more useless than an album that you don't feel strongly about, out in the world.
I did a CBS thing when I was a teenager that was a 'Music Minute' or something.
I think the main thing which boygenius and I talk about ad nauseum, is that I feel like I just apologise for myself less.
A lot of my close friends are musicians and are consumed by the idea of death; their heads are like a torture chamber. I'm not like that - I don't have death anxiety and I don't think about it all the time.
Whenever I write songs, it's my outlet for a certain feeling. I just don't as often feel compelled to write when I'm not really sad about something, or wanting to sort through something dark.
I've never really been afraid of how people were going to define me, as long as I didn't write some cheaper song because people like that I'm depressed.
I don't want to get all self-help on everyone. But I definitely think there was a period in my life where I thought I would feel the same way, forever. And every day felt like 'Groundhog Day,' where I was super, super depressed.
I feel like 'Pitchfork' has a style, and you always know what they're gonna say and what they're gonna pick apart.
My form of rebellion was starting to play guitar. I was 13. The first song I played was 'Lovesick Blues' by Hank Williams.
You know, I have been insanely lucky.
'Friday I'm in Love' sounds like the best possible summer song.
I love going on walks and talking to people.
Twitter is an extension of every dumb thought I have, firing it off - Instagram is a little more methodical.
I can't really remember my first headline show.
I'm not afraid to have a really weird idea or, you know, take a really bad guitar solo.
I think it's easier for me to write from experience.
If you're saying you're epically depressed in a song, you better be able to back it up. You better be able to talk about it in a smart way with someone who comes up to you after a show and is looking for help.
There are only couple songs that you can just hear and it'll put you in a great mood.
All the things people hate about touring, I'm excited for, because I've never done it before. I'm excited to see places I've never seen and be in the van and see if I get carsick while reading.
People still kind of think of me as like a folk artist, but on the first record, I truly was deferring to other people to produce me.
I actually have a kind of fantasy about doing a covers album in general. My music taste is so eclectic, that I think it would be cool to put it through the funnel of my arrangements.
I was planning to go into the studio in the summer of 2018, and then I started two bands!
Joshua Kirk, the YouTube kid with the glasses who looks directly into the camera - I really love his album reviews. He's been doing it for years.
I don't get starstruck by musicians anymore, but podcasts? I'm a total podcast groupie.
For every single person who's struggled with depression, there's this weird part of your brain that tells you you're the only person who's ever felt like that, even if you know for a fact it's not true.
I was actually with Conor Oberst on tour, and we were walking down the street getting a coffee. I walked into a random hipster-y coffee shop and I heard my own song, and I was so stoked.
Sadness can feel so unproductive.
I played at Room 5 a lot, which is probably the smallest capacity venue in Los Angeles. I begged my friends to come see me.
Often people have to wake me up from a nap to tell me to go on stage.
Sometimes I'm so exhausted and I don't really want to play.
I don't remember making a decision about music. I just always knew it was what I was going to do.
My songwriting is very personal. The music that influenced me was so impactful that had I grown up somewhere else, I know I would still write the same way I do because of those influences.
Boygenius' was the first time I produced without a producer-producer in the room. It's been crazy.
I love a good chorus, you know? I consider a lot of what I love pop. I consider Mitski pop.
I do the least 'working on myself' in our band.
