“Loneliness, being on the road. I have a chronic sadness that recurs. The lowest point was in Australia in May.
I was overwhelmingly sad, and I didn’t know why, because I had all these things to be happy about.
I went to the studio and played for hours, and I wrote what is going to be the greatest record of my career, a beautiful song about my father.
I remember watching the mascara tears flood the ivories and I thought, ‘It’s OK to be sad.’ I’ve been trained to love my darkness.”