Falling in love is a narcissistic endeavor. You play the role of lover, and you find someone to act it out on.
When you’re an artist, there’s always a moment in your life when you think you’re not inspired and instead of doing things and instead of travel and instead of falling in love, you’re just depressed, so you don’t move, so you don’t change. So you’re not inspired.
‘I Met You When I Was 18’ is a collection of songs, a story about moving to New York City when I was 18 and falling in love for the first time. A story about trying to figure out your own identity whilst being deeply intertwined with someone else’s.
I felt like love has been underrepresented – unironic love, just actually really falling in love.
Nothing like falling in love with a dead actress to prove your sanity.
There is that awful moment when you realize that you’re falling in love. That should be the most joyful moment, and actually it’s not. It’s always a moment that’s full of fear because you know, as night follows day, the joy is going to rapidly be followed by some pain or other. All the angst of a relationship.
‘Twilight’ was about a naive person who knew nothing of a certain world, basically discovering that this world existed and totally being indoctrinated into it and falling in love with a vampire, which is interesting.
