I’m talking about motherhood from so many different angles—from my own mother in relation to mothers, the role of mothers, who can be a mother, what qualifies someone to be a mother... but also family and aging and aging as a woman playing music. There’s always such an interest with youth in music, and I was finding it hard to find peers or role models who were my age but still making music. I was exploring all of those things and it wasn’t totally conscious.
I love Bully. And that was something I was noticing while I was writing. A lot of people I was friends with were going through this thing nobody was talking about, where they felt hijacked by hormones. They felt they needed to get married and have a family and hurry, hurry, hurry, or they were feeling like they didn’t want it at all, and they were making a hard stance of “no.
I get bored pretty easily. I would never want to write the same thing twice. I like to challenge myself, and I like to collaborate. I like mixing two things that shouldn’t go together and finding a way to make them work and having contrast, juxtaposing sounds. Live, I’m never going to get rid of the guitar. But sonically, I was just more interested in seeing what else you can create and how you can create something that sounds like a guitar.