but i got smarter, i got harder

“I really do write about girlhood a lot. There is a lot of girlhood woven through my music. And I'm very fascinated, and always have been, since I was in my mid-twenties, with this phase of becoming a young woman, where you're this very fragile and vulnerable age, I think 19 and 20 is such an interesting and profound experience for a young woman. Because it's like you have one foot still in girlhood. And yet, society and the world is telling you, 'You're an adult.' And there are so many opportunities for you to lose your girlhood, and have it taken from you, and it's inevitable that that happens when you become an adult, but the ways in which it can happen when you are still so unformed, as just this piece of clay, this person who hasn't cultivated their life yet, they don't have a coffee machine in their kitchen, they don't have these tastes that adult 10 years older or more have cultivated at that point because we spend our twenties searching and being so curious.”