#calum5sos

Calum moodboard!! (Citizen of the Planet - Alanis Morissette) bc im spreading this propaganda and rlly want to see calum edits to her music

"I care about their insight and their opinions so much, I was really hesitant and really nervous to show them, because I respect their opinion the most. And I wanted to make sure that the music was in its final form. I wanted to come to them with the album as a whole.

They were so sweet. They were so amazingly sweet and encouraging, to a point where I'm like, this is not normal for bands to be that supportive of each other. I feel so grateful to be in a group where everyone champions each other. I think I realised how rare and how beautiful that is and that's why we're still together after nearly 15 years, we allow each other to express ourselves creatively inside and outside the band.

Now that the music is done, I'm constantly going to them asking stuff like “How did you feel when you released your first single? How are you feeling doing interviews by yourself?" And I'll get these really insightful notes from them."

"it kind of represents a well of insanity, you know when you think about something so much you start to just kind of spiral. It's really a play on the things I haven’t met certain standards of being, whether that’s being a friend or a lover or a brother or a son, and it plays into the several voices in my head that all have opinions, that all think they're right"

"I've just naturally loved being an artist or a songwriter or just kind of like a creative in general. I think there was a realisation of this is kind of what I want to just be doing for the rest of my life.

I hope that people who have known me before kind of learn something new about me, and maybe just see me in a different light. I hope people like it as a collection and as an expression of art. I think I just decided a while ago that I just loved it [laughs]. No one will sway me from that… I just hope people like it."

"I mean, that's like one of the funnest parts of the job in 5 Seconds of Summer for sure. So it definitely interests me, and now having kind of experienced the unknowns of releasing music by myself, I feel like that would be really exciting for me to be able to do that.

I'm just kind of waiting for the right moment. It might be like if, or when I do another project and have enough songs to be able to properly tour and have a show that's long enough."

"There were a lot of parallels in terms of the music and the visuals in terms of like, I had to let other people really have an opinion and a perspective on it. Because I love collaborating and I think that's how I get the best outcome, is through collaboration.

The album title… those are kind of the themes. Then there's the more like nature derivative visuals and then there's more like the construction concrete world that it also lives in. It's like the two dichotomies of those."