Arlo Parks

I think there's something about escape to me.

I think I often feel, as quite a cerebral person who spends a lot of time in my own head, I do think I often fantasize about being outside of it.

And I don't necessarily think it's about being a specific person, more the concept of being outside of my own thoughts and my own patterns.

I think I find a lot of comfort in patterns and in doing things a certain way.

And I also think in terms of that song, a lot of it is about, you know, being hypersensitive and being so porous to the world and feeling so much all the time.

Being like, I wonder what it would be like to be a bit less like that.

Not that I would really want to be, but it was a fleeting thought.

It's true.

It's true.

Definitely.

The first thing that comes to mind, I think, is this denim jacket.

I got it at one of those kind of kilo vintage sales in Camden when I was maybe 13 or 14.

And I remember the process of sewing on my little badges that I felt kind of announced my identity in terms of,

the bands that I loved.

I had my little Arctic Monkeys one and had, you know, a Smashing Pumpkins one.

And there was something about how baggy and oversized it was.

It felt like this little cocoon or this shield.

And I just remember wearing it day in and day out.

My mom was like, are you ever going to take that jacket off?

I was like, this jacket is me.