

MS: It’s so sad because it’s like you accessed some magical channel.

I only have capacity for one or two things at a time, one or two ideas. There is nothing worse than forgetting the melody. Then suddenly I’ll be like, “Hey, this thing.” I wish I knew more about science.ĬP: How does it affect you when you’re writing? If you’re sketching the melody in the studio and someone you’re with starts playing something else, does it overwrite what you’re working on? When it comes back, it feels really magical to me. I’m always surprised when I forget something, I feel like it’s gone forever. MS: Definitely, there’s so much that I just blank out on. Maybe that’s a lie that we tell ourselves. For me, how certain plants smell or look or how many bugs there are in the spring, which I never remember.ĬP: Maybe we can’t remember everything then. MS: I’ve never actually actively thought about, but it is interesting to think that you would have to be in a really specific environment in order to experience a memory in a more visceral way, because of course you can remember anything at any point, but there’s also all the little things that you forget. I think music can do that for people too, which is why people get so sentimental about music that reminds them of certain phases in their past. It’s as if there are chambers of memory and different points in time access different chambers.ĬP: Fully. Do you know what I mean? When it is spring, suddenly those smells give you like a renewed access to all your other spring memories. I’m like, “Whoa there’s leaves coming in!”ĬP: It’s almost like when you get the flu or any sort of bad sickness, you suddenly have new access to the memories of all the other times you’ve been sick. for so long, living somewhere where the seasons change blows my mind. I wish I could show you in person.ĬP: I’m seeing terraced steps, beautiful greenery behind it. My view out of the studio window is really beautiful. MS: I’m in Asheville, North Carolina, in my house, in my office-slash-studio, which is a mess. New era, as the kids say.ĬP: It’s a good time to.

It was time to refresh and just start new. I feel like a new person I had to change it up. Styling assistant Kailee Takashima.Ĭaroline Polachek: You look so fresh with the short blond. Grooming by Annette Chaisson for Exclusive Artists using Koh Gen Do.
