I can't write another breakup record. That would be a real cliche.
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I am never writing a breakup record again, by the way. I'm done with being a bitter witch.
There were songs I would write about breaking up with somebody before I broke up with them, months and months before I broke up with them.
The only reason I would write a break-up song is because my own problem of allowing myself to relate to people.
Everyone wants to talk about terrible breakups. Breakups are horrible, they're relatable, and people do them badly. Everyone has a story of a terrible breakup.
Breakups are hard for anybody, and no matter how it happens or ends up, they're just hard.
I have breakups that I can credit to every song. In my twenties, I picked people who would create that dysfunction and drama, so I could draw upon it.
We never threw a record together. Each record was done really seriously, as if our life depended on it.
Breaking records is not something you expect to be doing. That's like a sports thing, it's not usually a comedy and writing thing.
I wrote most of these songs right before the end. A lot of these songs are about that. Even if it's not direct, you can feel the beginning of the end of the breakup in these songs.
I tell people this: It's hard to write about walking in the park, but it's easy to write about a breakup.