It's like that feeling of,
"Oh, okay. I've met my match."
And when that happens, when you've met your mirror,
your twin flame,
the one that meets you everywhere you go,
it kind of feels like that like 'Mr. and Mrs. Smith,'
like, "Ah okay, you know, who's gonna win here?"
It's very much a... It's like a cat and mouse,
you against me, but really at the end of the day, it's us.
I never go into the recording studio with like a plan.
It's always just sort of like,
"Okay, we're gonna knock out a bunch of songs."
And I went in with one of my favorite producers,
his name's Dan.
He's a buddy of mine. Every time I mention
him in an interview, I'm always like "Dan!"
We knocked it out, I think actually in like a couple passes.
And that's always my favorite kind of recording process,
is when you go in and you're like,
"Okay, I'm just like feeling it today.
I wanna just like feel however I'm feeling
all over the track," and it ended up being great.
"We Belong" happened fast,
and then it went on a shelf for a while
and it came back around and now it's,
I think it's my most successful song.
So you never know, you never know
with that kind of thing, like while you're doing it.
I'm always apart from my significant other,
no matter what, because you know,
my job takes me all over the place
and usually the person that I'm with also,
their job takes them all over the place.
So that feeling of being like, "I wanna be here,
I wanna be present to my own life.
But like, holy shit, I'm so in love with you
and we belong together," you know.
That sort of sentiment about like,
"I belong to me, I'm mine.
But then after that, directly after that, I'm yours."
The more, you know yourself,
the more able you are to feel your own chemistry
and your own true north and your own compass.
I don't know, it's like one of those things
where the more you talk about it,
it doesn't make more sense.
It's completely non-verbal, non formulaic,
like it's not the same for everybody, like you just know.
The imagery in the chorus with wine-stained teeth
and bloodshot eyes, is like exactly reminiscent
of this trip that I took to Paris.
It was like, we were supposed to be doing something.
There was some kind of commitment that we both had.
And then we were like, "Should we just like,
cancel it and fuck off to Paris?"
And then we were like, "Yeah!"
We escaped to Paris for like seven days or something.
And I remember we got like, what's the equivalent
of a gas station in Paris?
Like it was beautiful, obviously,
because everything in Paris is beautiful,
but it was like a little like shop
and we got like biscuits and Nutella one night.
And we had just gotten these like
terrible street paintings done.
So "Wine-stained teeth, bloodshot eyes.
Think we're both fucked up and that's all right,"
was kinda like that middle of the night,
madly in love feeling.
It's healthier when you feel
like you've got your heart in your brain,
but it's really hard, especially in the first little bit
of a relationship, to feel like you have any ownership
over what's going on inside your body.
He was the one who really made it
impossible for me to ignore him.
You know, I was pretty reticent
to even like speak to him, 'cause I was like,
"Oh, we have this super fiery,
chemical thing happening and I don't even know you,
you've barely spoken two words to me."
When that started happening
and I walked in the other direction,
everywhere I went, he like met me there.
I was like, "Fuck! You know, what am I gonna..."
If somebody, if something is just so right,
you can't stop it from happening.
The more you can solidify your individuality,
and the more you can be present
to your own energy and not so lost in the shared energy
of the relationship or your significant other,
the more when you're back together,
it's going to be that much healthier.