Read on:. I know that you wrote that you wanted to make a change in your life and represent a new journey and a fresh start, but is the title also influenced by The Hunger Games? So we tried very hard to make it all work and put the song in — and to put parts of what I was developing in with the movie. But, no, it has nothing to do with The Hunger Games. Why did you feel the need for a fresh start? It came more from a personal place.
And when I talk about changing, I think I mean maybe more evolution. There was just a moment in my life where I was just realizing all of these things, and they just became really clear. All of a sudden, I realized that things that I had dealt with before, or things that I thought that I wanted in my life before, or things that I thought were acceptable to me before just started to be different.
I think that was simply evolution and becoming more conscious and aware of who I am and what kind of life I want to have. Obviously, that takes a lot of time; that takes a courage that, I think, sometimes we doubt we have inside of ourselves.
And so just all those discoveries made me realize that this overall claiming of what type of life I want to have is what made me change for the better. I know pretty instantly what it is. I have to say pretty much all of them were written after Egypt. Where did you record the album? You said you traveled the world recording it…. The majority of where I recorded was in New York.
I was definitely here for the majority of the time, and then there were a couple of other places as well. I recorded in London and in Jamaica, which was the first time I ever did that.
