Well, the person that I wrote that song about represents the full spectrum of human emotion, and how we’re capable of loving and hating someone at the same time. While writing that song, I was reading Ray Bradbury’s Zen in the Art of Writing, and he writes about getting your true loves and your true hates onto the paper. Up until that point, I felt a lot of hate, and I wanted to channel that into my songwriting, but I felt like maybe I shouldn’t go that far as to say that I hated something or someone. But that book made me feel pretty fearless in a way that I hadn’t felt before, at least in my songwriting.”
Mackenzie said:
Well, the person that I wrote that song about represents the full spectrum of human emotion, and how we’re capable of loving and hating someone at the same time. While writing that song, I was reading Ray Bradbury’s Zen in the Art of Writing, and he writes about getting your true loves and your true hates onto the paper. Up until that point, I felt a lot of hate, and I wanted to channel that into my songwriting, but I felt like maybe I shouldn’t go that far as to say that I hated something or someone. But that book made me feel pretty fearless in a way that I hadn’t felt before, at least in my songwriting.”
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