If you complete all of your lessons as a human, then you don't have to come back to earth,
but if you don't complete your lessons as a human, then you just have to come back as
a different life.
For me, as Twig, so I'll have these lessons, I don't know what they are yet and
I have to figure out what my lesson is and if I don't, I just have to come back as Bob
Home With You is about that battle of wanting to be there for somebody, but also struggling
to be there for yourself at the same time.
The song was pretty much done in one take.
So I just started making all these sounds being like.
It was really liberating actually.
It's kind of like using my voice more kind of, in a rhythmic sort of way.
And then we did this really long jam, and I remember afterwards, I just sat down in
Ableton and I just started getting all of the bits, and taking this there, and then
putting this in, and then putting this there.
It was like very, very raw to begin with and then over the next coming months, I sort of
went in and perfected the effects and just sort of made it a little bit more complete.
It's like your body's exhausted, and mentally you're exhausted, but your brain is just like.
When I feel anxious or when I feel like my mind is busy, I just put something on the
TV, anything from Love Island to some David Attenborough, deep sea, something that you
can just almost watch and just zone out.
And then I just stretch for hours and hours and hours, and then I feel better.
For me kind of being goofy and making light of things that are quite serious a way of
me processing trauma.
A couple of years ago, I had a lot of health issues.
I had fibroid tumors.
So, I would call my tumors my fruit bowl of pain and I'd be like, "Okay, so I've got three
cooking apples, four strawberries.”
But, at the same time I'm very cautious what I put in my body.
I don't want to put painkillers in.
After I had my operation, I was on a lot of Morphine and I just wanted to come off it
straight away.
They gave me all these painkillers and stuff and I just went ... from when I left the hospital,
I just went like nothing to ... I mean, just dealt with it.
So, I'm saying I still maintain my grace, you know what I mean?
I was still present and I just felt present in my body
I guess it's almost quite like hip hop.
Do you know what I mean?
More money, more assets, more problems, more you have to lose.
Everybody wants something off you.
Even if it's just kind of the association.
So, if you're going through a hard time it's just tiring.
That human sort of condition.
When something's not there the more that people want it.
So, it's like, well I never heard from him before, but now I'm on tour and I'm busy,
all of a sudden you want to talk every day.
I've been in Hackney for three years, you literally never hit me up.
And, now I'm away trying to like get my life, all of a sudden it's like, hey, you never
hit me back anymore superstar.
And you're like, no, we never used to talk anyway.
Not just superheroes, but also just in the world.
There's very few examples of people that are in a position of power or visibility that
I can identify to who have a sense of vulnerability and have a sense of not being perfect, but
at the same time being perfectly them and that being accepted.
For me as an artist, my vulnerability is my key and I've learned to find a lot of strength
in that.
I've learned to find a lot of that ... that's kind of my superpower.
In my position of struggling even just to keep myself afloat.
I wonder why you think that I can help you right now because we're all sort of in this
position of figuring stuff out.
So it's just kind of like, yeah, I'll try.
Throughout history there have been these amazing women that have given so much like emotional
labor to somebody else.
These people like Mary Magdalene have had such like a huge part in history, and they
did it selflessly.
All these times when we get in our head and we're thinking like, "I need to do this.
I need to do this.
I need to do this."
If you just explain very simply like in a sentence how you feel it just makes it easier
for everyone to say like, "What can I do for you right now?
Like how can I be here for you right now?"
It's impossible to know how anyone truly feels anymore because I speak to my friends on the
phone, and I think, "Oh, wow.
They're having such a hard time."
And then I'll see them on Instagram, and they'll be like slash crushing life.
Like it's confusing because we kind of have this world now where we can exist and be so
perfect, and put a filter on everything, and make everything seem like it's so perfect.
But behind the scenes it's like people are struggling.
Sometimes when I meditate I'll lie on the floor, and I'll put like stones in my hands
like this.
I personally don't try and like free my mind of thoughts, or anything like that.
I just let my brain sort of just go on a journey of things that make absolutely no sense until
everything just starts like slowing down.
That thing where I'm letting you know you're coming home, and you're like, “Ah can you
put the kettle on?”
It's like that.
Like someone's at home like ready for you to come back.
Stoking up the fire for me.
They get frustrated.
Set the place alight, call me later at night like get annoyed with me, get frustrated with
me.
If you get frustrated with me I'll come home.
They have to set the house on fire, and I'll come home.
I'm pretty goofy, which is so funny because people don't know that.
My archetype would be the jester or something.
I'm always doing silly voices and dancing and acting stuff out.