happy new year! I hope you were able to recharge over the holiday period. this year is already off to a crazy start, I’m thinking of those of you in LA right now. hope you are all safe.

I took some time to recharge over the break, which I’m grateful for, and I’m excited to be getting back into the swing of things. so much to come this year. I’m working on my debut album!

a bunch of questions have been submitted to the form, so I wanted to take a moment to answer them - so without further ado, here is conversation 003!

can you share the story behind one of your favourite songs you’ve written?

when I wrote you’ll find it I was travelling interstate, staying alone at a friend’s place who was out of town. I was 20/21 and enjoying the new-found freedom of being on my own in a different city. I was there to work on music. it was exciting but also scary in its unfamiliarity. at this point I’d probably only released my first EP, had just started working with my manager, and felt quite isolated and naive in the whole process - navigating an industry I’d mostly known the dark sides of from my experiences as a teenager. one night I met up with an old friend who was now living in this city, for dumplings at a BYO restaurant. broke and inexperienced, I bought some cheap wine to go with my dinner - an awful combination - and somehow managed to drink the whole bottle. I can laugh about it now, but needless to say, I was terribly hungover the next morning, sick to my stomach - the worst I’ve ever felt. I had to cancel plans for that day and I had no one to blame but myself. I felt shameful for getting myself into this situation - but we all have to make dumb mistakes when we’re young, right?

I spent the day on the couch which was my bed, and wrote you’ll find it as a letter to myself to trust the process, and learn from my mistakes. it’s one of my most honest songs, and I love it for that.

how do you write your songs, and what inspires your music?

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thank you for your questions this month. I decided to answer them in a video. I’ll place the transcript below.

if you have questions for our next conversation, please submit them here.

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welcome to our first conversation! I wanted to create a space where we could dive deeper on the things you’re interested in, rather than just me rambling about my life and updates like I do in the letters. here it’s a two-way street! so, thank you to everyone who submitted questions for this month. I’m going to try and answer all of them and my aim is to be as open, unfiltered and in-depth with my answers as possible. a lot of the questions are centred around the EP, which is fitting since it just came out. for future conversations, nothing is off limits. feel free to submit questions about anything and everything here.

down the line I might even invite guests/friends to be part of these conversations, if that’s something you would be interested in? let me know in the substack comments.

without further ado, let the conversation begin!

what song took you lyrically the longest to write? and what song are you most proud of?

I think towers took the longest to finish, lyrically. the day Deb and I wrote it, we were only together for a couple hours. we wrote the first verse lyrics, and then had the melody for the chorus, with only a mumble… here’s a glimpse into the idea forming in the original session:

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