Bridgers: "When I'm writing, I try to think about what would make a song better before worrying about personal opinions."

Bridgers: "Whenever I write songs, it's my outlet for a certain feeling. I just don't as often feel compelled to write when I'm not really sad about something, or wanting to sort through something dark."

Bridgers: "I don't remember making a decision about music. I just always knew it was what I was going to do."

Bridgers: "If you're saying you're epically depressed in a song, you better be able to back it up. You better be able to talk about it in a smart way with someone who comes up to you after a show and is looking for help."

Bridgers: "There is nothing more useless than an album that you don't feel strongly about, out in the world."

Bridgers: "I've never really been afraid of how people were going to define me, as long as I didn't write some cheaper song because people like that I'm depressed."

Bridgers: "Sometimes I just need somebody to tell me a bunch of ideas I don't like, so that I can figure out what it is I actually want."

Bridgers: "I write what I feel the most heavy about. So if there is one day of the week when I feel completely crushed by existential dread, I'll end up writing about it, not the great day I had at the park with my friends. I hope it resonates with people - and it does, with some."

Bridgers: "I have this thing in the back of my brain that dares me to think of the most disturbing thing."

Bridgers: "I wanted to talk about how stupid music is. I wanted to talk about how awesome music is, and how depressing it is, and why we all make music if it doesn't last forever."

Bridgers: "Twitter is an extension of every dumb thought I have, firing it off - Instagram is a little more methodical."

Bridgers: "My songwriting is very personal. The music that influenced me was so impactful that had I grown up somewhere else, I know I would still write the same way I do because of those influences."

Bridgers: "Once in a blue moon I'll have some sort of concept song or it will be about a bunch of different things, but yeah, it's all from experiences."

Bridgers: "The whole narrative around catharsis is complex. Sometimes it can put you in a box, where you feel like you can’t write anything but heartfelt songs that offer an emotional release."

Bridgers: "The more specific you are about a very general feeling of loneliness is actually how you connect with people."

Bridgers: "When you write music, if it’s true, it’s useful. But if it starts to feel like you’re playing a character, I think it can get dangerous. Especially if that character is very, very sad."

Bridgers: "I'm not afraid to have a really weird idea or, you know, take a really bad guitar solo."

Bridgers: "All the things people hate about touring, I'm excited for, because I've never done it before. I'm excited to see places I've never seen and be in the van and see if I get carsick while reading."

Bridgers: "Doing stuff on my own terms and making a record without being signed to a label - I credit that all to my commercial work."

Bridgers: "A lot of my close friends are musicians and are consumed by the idea of death; their heads are like a torture chamber. I'm not like that - I don't have death anxiety and I don't think about it all the time."

Bridgers: "I love a good chorus, you know? I consider a lot of what I love pop. I consider Mitski pop."

Bridgers: "I don't want to get all self-help on everyone. But I definitely think there was a period in my life where I thought I would feel the same way, forever. And every day felt like 'Groundhog Day,' where I was super, super depressed."

Bridgers: "We're all guilty of slacktivism, or of feeling like a savior for taking two seconds of your day to think about someone else."

Bridgers: "I’m a white girl from Pasadena. I went to a very nice school and had a bunch of friends. But my first song was called 'I’m the Only Bird Flying the Other Way.' I always gravitated toward songs where the narrator is the outcast."

Bridgers: "I didn't go to college and I worked so I could play music. That was my goal."

Bridgers: "Senior year of high school, my best friend and I ditched class to drive to an abandoned mental hospital, but on the way, we crashed. My car was totaled, but we were fine. I joked that we had died, and that we were now in a purgatory hallucination. I don’t joke about it anymore."

Bridgers: "I want to bring in more electronic elements, but also some analogue stuff. Stuff like '70s drum machines really fascinates me."