How does it feel to have your firts record done and out?
-Well, pretty awesome. To me it is incredibly huge the fact that I had something done, you know? I'm the quiter type of person and I hardly acomplish anything. I lose interest in things real soon and I pretty much sabotage myself a lot, so, having a record done is like, too much for me, I didn't even know I was capable.
If you're a quiter, how did you end up signing a record deal and working on a record?
-I had to push myself real hard. I forced myself to do things I didn't want to do. I am, you can often dream about, you know, being a musician, playing gigs and making records but it doesn't mean you're actually going for it, so I asked myself what was that I didn't want to do to get where I wanted to be and I just did it. I sat for hours everyday to put my lyrics and music together and sent demos, it sounds easy, although it is not exactly easy but that's basically what you have to do. It worked.
Did you try to sabotage yourself during the process?
-Oh hell yeah, once I had the meeting and stuff I hated myself every second of it, I was like why in the hell did I get myself into this? They're going to laugh at me. But then again, I was like, hey, what are the fucking odds of having producers listening to your crap? Worst thing that could happen is that they're going to say you suck and I might as well try again. But they were actually really nice, I appreciated it a lot.
How did you end up having such amazing guests on the album?
-I have no idea, seriously, I don't. I had these people on my album because I'm truly in love with their work, I never ever thought they would even consider it, so I was incredibly nervous. I met Conor at a bar one night he was playing and I could barely talk but he was awesome. With Faris and Sean I actually e-mailed them, I thought they were going to get mad for me having their e-mail adresses and daring to ask them for help but they're completely down to earth. These three people are incredibly talented and they supported me a lot during the recording, I learned so much, they made me fall in love with my album, I'll be forever thankful to them.
Was it hard working with any of them?
-It wasn't at all, I mean, at firts I felt like a complete idiot, all shy and shit, I thought they're going to think what are we doing here wasting our time but man, they really know what they're doing, we talked a lot and they had me explaining what was that I wanted to do and we fed each other constatly with different ideas. We wouldn't sleep three or four nights in a row but we couldn't stop working, it was a beautiful experience, they're my heroes.
What was the hardest during the process of recording the album?
-Everything, me being a newbie and having all my flows exposed to their fullest. I cried a lot, I must confess. I cried over not doing it well, not having the results I wanted, I cried over certain songs because they were emotionally way too hard for me, it was like a catharsis everyday and that's exhausting but I knew my entire soul was there in every song, the album in fact is too much to be heard all at once. If you can then you will enjoy it, but if not you might as well will only listen to a couple of songs. I can't listen to that album, I play the songs every night but not all of them and I change tracklist a lot, still I'm proud of it.
