The singer reflects on her new album, writing lyrics to her future self, and why she ditched the Arcade Fire tour.
After experiencing the birth of your daughter and death of your father in quick succession, did the circular nature of life become any clearer for you?
I guess I’m coming — ha — full circle now to a deeper understanding of an idea I’d planted when I was younger, something I branded myself with to keep in my mind. But then you lose sight of the circle, like the dark side of the moon. You’re right though. Everything has come back. My friend Ariel Engle, a singer in Broken Social Scene who has her own project called La Force — she said she wouldn’t have found La Force or made her first record until her daughter raised the stakes because, all of a sudden, time became finite. Our identities are completely called into question and incinerated by this new role and responsibility, so there’s an even deeper compulsion to find what there is to say, to plant the flag and find some turf.
I’d say the person that I needed to be to write those songs was very much a future self. So much was shook by the bookends of my heart opening a thousand times bigger than it could have ever known. To the open heart, I received the blunt-force trauma of losing my dad. It’s still sort of strange, because these are two of the most important events in my life that have been shifting and changing me, and they don’t really feel like things I understand yet — but, luckily, that’s what songwriting is.
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