Hilary Duff

And I think that's like very much how I like to exist in the world is like this balance of these two things can exist at the same time.

And, you know, the record is a pop record.

It feels like you want to blast into your car.

At least I do.

That's when I knew it was done, you know.

But they're like life topics.

And life is really challenging, really hard, really tricky to make the right calls and the wrong calls.

It's all just a process and like a very beautiful and messy one.

And I feel like the record has just so much of that in it.

It feels like a capture of 10 years of different things flying at you.

I love that juxtaposition, too.

And I love that word because playing the few little shows that I played before I go out this summer was such a cool feeling of like the audience one is like my age.

So they're all adults now.

We've grown up together.

And it was like, I'm playing these old songs that feel so good to people and hold such a sweet, like innocent part of their being, you know, some like that meant something to them at a very like pivotal coming of age.

And to get to hold that memory for people is such a like badge for me.

But then also to meet them with like the new songs and kind of experiences that life has provided was a really cool experience to have them sing like these songs that they have from the record, you know, to sing them and us be adults and be connecting on that level is like really, really powerful.

So it's like this really...

cool, floaty feeling of like this thing that feels really good that we get to lean on and like celebrate from our past.

But, you know, be like me too, you know, in the now.