Was writing a helpful process or the hardest it’s been?
Most of the record, with the exception of three songs, was written before I went into the studio, but I think doing these songs to tape in the [Topanga] Canyon was exactly the right place to be, and focus was really helpful when I maybe otherwise could have been staring at the walls. I wrote “This Is How It Works” a week or so after my mom passed. And I finished writing “Chasing The Sun” right after. Most of the record was finished before I lost my parents, except for those two.