It’s a very meaningful title isn’t it?
It is. I took it from a quote from Martha Graham where she speaks about artistry and sort of the sad plight of an artist and being sort of dissatisfied with where you’ve been. But you have to sort of believe that there’s divinity in that dissatisfaction sort of bringing you forward into your next piece of art. So it’s this idea of a Blessed Unrest. The fact that you’re dissatisfied is actually a good thing, because you’re being drawn forward into whatever comes next.
I guess it’s difficult being an artist because you are always thinking about what’s next. That’s quite hard I guess.
A little bit. I think a little bit. And as soon as you get a little space from what you’ve made before..I mean you start to hate it, you know? And then you go through a few periods of time where I listen to my own music and I’m embarrassed and then “oh god why did I do it that way?” But that’s what brings stepping forward into what making whatever comes next.
You took a quite a big journey in your life when you were writing the album, can you tell us about that?
I did, I made a lot of changes […] It was very bittersweet.
Was it kind of a conscious decision to make those changes?
I think some of them sort of happened naturally. And I started to really take stock of my life. And I felt very stagnant in a lot of ways, so I think I was really consciously trying to create some newness and some momentum for myself.