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I think the way that my brain works isn’t very linear. There are a lot of things going on all the time – I guess if someone was to pathologise, they might go: “Oh, you might have some attention neurodivergence,” but I’m always curious and I like knowing how things work and the challenge of putting different pieces together. I’m also working within the medium of song, and a song has to have a heart and a centre – it doesn’t have to be literal, but you know when something is a song versus when something is a jam. So that is the challenge, lots of things can be conceptually interesting, but if you can’t walk away remembering a melody or being moved [then it’s not a song]. A song should have an epiphany – it doesn’t have to be fireworks, but it has to have tension, a release and a payoff. I get there a lot of different ways, but I rarely get there from sitting down and going, “Here are the chords, the lyrics and that is the simplest way to write a song.”
