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“It was wonderful working with Sadie Sink and Dylan O’Brien. I’m blown away by what they did. I wrote this short film and wanted to direct it and the only two people I imagined playing the two characters were Sadie and Dylan. If Sadie—the first one I went to—if Sadie had said no, I don’t think I would’ve made it. I would’ve been like, ‘This is a sign.’ I do like working with friends, or people who I think would be excited about working with me. I don’t really want to convince someone—I’m not very interested in that at all. I’ve never made a short film before. I’ve done some music videos, but I needed to reach out to people who would maybe believe I’d be capable. Sadie got it immediately, Dylan was like, ‘Yep.’ I watch everything he’s in, I’m a huge fan. And they just went out and left it all on the field there. They just really acted their asses off.”

“This is the original thing I wrote. There’s a song called All Too Well that was never a single. This song was never a single, never had a video, and the fans just turned it into The Song from this album. I used to get so sad when I’d sing it that I could barely get through the song and over time I realized the fans were just screaming the words back to me so loudly that it was very joyful for me to sing. And it has been a joyful thing for me to sing. It’s so fun to hear them sing the words. So this song originally, it’s a long song as it is, but was originally 10 min long. I just kept, I was [scribbling, couldn’t stop] but was like you gotta fit something on an album. That’s unreasonable. So I had to cut out certain verses, parts of the bridge, lots of things I really loved. I left some of my favorite lines on the cutting room floor. I’m really happy people get to hear it and so proud. I think this was the version of the song that was meant to be heard.”