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On how turning 23 feels different than 22:<\/p>\n
\u201cI just feel a lot less afraid, in a good way. The year is off to a great start.\u201d<\/p>\n
On playing cards as \u201ca metaphor for life\u201d:<\/p>\n
\u201cIf you\u2019re too busy looking at someone else\u2019s cards, you\u2019re not going to look at your own.\u201d<\/p>\n
On what was on her mind while making the new album:<\/p>\n
\u201cI was really excited to write about joy, love, and passion in a way that I had never really done. Most of my big songs are about being sad, angry, heartbroken.\u201d<\/p>\n
On whether she finds it hard to write about happiness and whether it\u2019s cringier to be happy or sad:<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s not hard to do when I\u2019m sitting there by myself in my room, but it was never the stuff that I put out. Sometimes I listen back to it and I cringe\u2026.It\u2019s cringier to be happy. I cringe, but I\u2019m free. All of my favorite love songs have an element of sadness, and that\u2019s what makes them so beautiful. A great love song has so much emotion behind it that it could go either way. I want to make love songs that you can cry to.\u201d<\/p>\n
On her third studio album, you seem pretty sad for a girl so in love:<\/p>\n
\u201cWe really edited the hell out of this album. There was so much more joy in the songwriting. There are some songs that are plain old sad but also some songs that are just plain old fun.\u201d<\/p>\n
On how her songwriting process for you seem pretty sad for a girl so in love differed from her last two albums:<\/p>\n
\u201cWe didn\u2019t have time for revisions on SOUR. The whole world was watching. I wrote and we just fucking recorded and put it out. Then with GUTS, I was under so much pressure, like, Oh my god, I\u2019m never going to be able to make another good song. It wasn\u2019t even making music to make music. It was making music to please people or prove something\u2026.With this album, I actually was like, \u2018I\u2019m done with the sophomore one. Now I can have fun again.\u2019 I was writing songs the way I did when I was 16, purely for fun. There were some beautiful moments, like, \u2018Whoa, it\u2019s flowing out,\u2019 which feels like catching a butterfly in a net.\u201d<\/p>\n
On how she has changed from the person who made SOUR five years ago:<\/p>\n
\u201cI was so young then and felt like the world was on my shoulders and that I had to have everything together. I was motivated, but there was fear. Now I feel a lot more self-assured. My passion and work ethic come from a place of positivity rather than a scared mindset.\u201d<\/p>\n
Click through to find out what else the \u201cdrop dead\u201d singer-songwriter had to say\u2026<\/p>\n
Photos: Getty<\/p>\n
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