Quotes

"All of the best love songs or poems have an element of sadness or longing or fear in them. There's even an element of anxiety in 'drop dead.'"

"I was listening to a lot of post-punk: The Cure, New Order, Depeche Mode, Siouxsie and the Banshees. I wanted it to sound like how it feels to fall in love; string arrangements that are like your heart swelling."

"I was really excited to write about joy, love, and passion in a way that I had never really done. Most of my big songs are about being sad, angry, heartbroken."

"We really edited the hell out of this album." Rodrigo described writing songs the way she did at 16, purely for fun: "There was so much more joy in the songwriting."

"I just remember being younger and having pictures of Courtney Love and Kat Bjelland from all these riot grrrl punk bands in their babydoll dresses, just owning it. I always thought that that was really cool."

Back in 2020, producer Dan Nigro had been scrolling through Instagram when he came across a video of Rodrigo singing her then-unreleased “Happier.” He was so blown away that he sent her a DM.

I’m slightly in awe of how easy she finds it all.

I actually feel like it’s my calling in some weird way. I’ve had this dream to do this festival for a really long time.