The point at which we made this song in this record was a turning point in the sense that
I realized that I could make a happier album.
That actually, the way I felt now, however it was I was feeling, needed to be the way
the record sounded.
This song was particularly pivotal in how the recorded ended up for me.
I think I'd not, until that point, in this album-making process probably made something
so jubilant and celebratory.
I think a lot of the stuff I'd made for 'The Colour in Anything,' around the time 'The Colour
in Anything' and onwards, was quite melancholic and this was, I think, a moment in which I
was feeling less and less melancholic.
And I was feeling more and more in love.
I'd started working much more closely with Dominic Maker and he brought in the sample
of the Manhattans.
As soon as he brought it in and started playing it, everyone's mood changed in the room, and
I just felt that it was like a wave of ... and all I had to do was get on it
The opening lines they come across as supportive, but really in a way, they're gloating at other
people.
They're saying, "you underestimated this person I really believed in."
And "look at how it's turned out."
I followed this person to California.
California wasn't somewhere that I ever envisaged myself living, especially as an
English person.
I think we just don't ever think that that is a possibility because it's just so far
away both in head space and in geographically.
This whole record was written here, and maybe that reflects in the sound of it.
There's something slightly spiritual about that line; that when you find something or
someone that you feel is ... was missing, and up until that point you are blissfully
unaware that you could be missing anything, and you really feel like you have it worked out.
I mean, it's funny because it's not even my lyric, it's the Manhattans, but it really
just brought so many ideas to the table really.
I think the idea of "flow" within a relationship I think in this song I'm talking about it
in quite a peaceful way.
Very often, love is maybe characterized or passion or romance is characterized in a kind
of chaotic up-and-down roller coaster.
And my experience of maybe the best love I've ever had has been peaceful.
My formative years were spent listening to Stevie Wonder, and I think in a way, he kept
me company.
That album particularly, 'Music of My Mind,' was a big one for me.
That phrase also, I think, resonates a lot with someone who has kind of used music as
a catharsis and as a friend when there weren't other dependable friends around.
I don't do anything daredevil.
I have a survival mechanism that's pretty over-careful.
Love can be an incredibly scary thing because you realize in that moment that you are vulnerable.
Everyone especially growing up in the West, I think there's a societal and a political
and an economic understanding that we are our own center of the universe, and that everything
in our lives depends on us.
The realization that you’re actually just a piece that fits into everything else is
the antidote.