Arlo Parks

But I think because I'm constantly kind of in motion and live quite a restless life, I'm always writing on little bits of paper and promising that I'll organize them in my notebook and never really doing so.

So yeah, I do.

That's interesting.

I feel like getting those accolades and achieving that success at that age with a record that I created, you know, in a space that was quite unobserved.

I was just writing poetry and expressing myself and didn't feel like there were any eyes on me.

And then to be praised for something that I created where, you know, the North Star was completely me and my meanness, I think.

having that at that age did allow me to relax into this sense of trusting the journey um and I've always wanted to be a career artist I've always wanted to be somebody who's making albums till the end so I think that it definitely allowed me to settle into myself and know that you know if I trusted myself that would be the right thing to do and put me in the right place yeah because when you

I feel, I was gonna say, I feel like for me, it's almost the opposite.

I know.

Like, I think I very much thought that, you know, music was something that I would be doing in obscurity, quietly, away from everyone's eyes until the end.

and so i do think that success was a surprise maybe the kind of success you know because i i definitely did feel that you know there was something to to the work which is why i shared it but i think for it to be recognized in this kind of global way that was so much bigger than me was was a surprise yeah say yeah it's very um

I agree with that.

I do think it's quite generative.

And I guess it depends maybe on the angle, the type of success that you achieve.

But I think when something that you've kind of created from a pure place is accepted in that way, it also generates a lot of confidence, I think.

It feels like it snowballs in a way.

Yeah, I think, I mean, it's a muscle almost.

I think that decisiveness and being able to, you know, have that real line between the gut and the action and not really doubting that lightning.

I do think, personally, I think I've always been quite in touch with

that part of myself but I do think that when you're making a decision that isn't just for you and that you know is going to kind of ripple out into the world it does start to create a little bit of self-doubt or you're kind of checking again and again to make sure that that's really what you're meant to do.