PS: . . . triumphant . . .
C: . . . and powerful, and moodboards, and lots of writing around it. It was a full process of a constructed dream. La Vita Nuova is more like a fever nightmare: it's something that slips through my hands and I don't know what's happening, and I'm running after something, but it's a ghost. It's really about being honest. I think the less you're fighting songwriting, the more great it is in the end. And that EP, I really let it flow out of me without really trying to make sense out of it, and it turns out the whole thing was quite coherent.
"Sometimes I think the songs are even more clever than I am."
A song like "I Disappear in Your Arms," I wrote it in 20 minutes just shortly after a fight with a lover. I wrote it in a solid emotion I was feeling, which was frustration. But in the end it's interesting because, when I wrote it, I was like, "I'm writing about disappearing into somebody's arms because I am trying so hard, and it's not working, and it feels like I don't even know who I am anymore." And then people told me, "It's interesting, because that song could talk about you and yourself also: your inability to allow yourself the love you deserve. Because you keep on disappearing in places you don't belong." And I'm like, "Ohhh." [laughter] Sometimes I think the songs are even more clever than I am. I'm like, "Ah, I see."
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