It is a difficult decision to make and a lot of responsibility! But we’ll just do the best we can. But you never know! I just don’t want to be the reason for anyone to get COVID. We’re trying and I hope we can do it, but it might be difficult. How are things looking with that at the moment? You’ve also announced a headlining tour for 2022 to go with the album. But as the music has grown, and I’ve stayed the same. In the beginning, I was just as big as my music. Musically, the more successful I get, the smaller I feel. It is important to remember that we are enough. We don’t have to justify all the things we do. We don’t have to justify our existence by constantly aiming to improve. Which is good, but it can be overwhelming! Sometimes it is enough to just exist. Particularly online, there is pressure to be vocal about everything. Big-headed, but I think in a way it’s how we all feel. It is a naïve thought, that it’s my responsibility to fix anything. ![]() I think about this a lot, but I try to not get too distracted by it. It is also near impossible to educate yourself on every single political and social issue in the world. Sometimes you want to do more than you can, which can be frustrating. But sometimes that can make you forget that you’re just a human. ![]() You try to include everyone by making sure that your message is meaningful and that the words heal rather than hurt. I’m just an artist who wants to make music, but I still feel the responsibility to speak up against issues. I see all these problems in the world, but I know I’m not a politician. Not in a way that makes life feel heavy, but it can be conflicting at times. Things have changed and I definitely feel the weight of the responsibility. What has been the biggest change for you? And do you feel the weight of this extra responsibility. You’ve also amassed a huge following along the way. Since you first started out around ten years ago, your sound and your style has changed quite a lot. It’s nice to take a break from crying all the time! And I’m excited to have fun with it on stage. I decided with this album to show a more playful, sensual, and carefree side of myself, which is also a part of me. With this album, I re-reminded myself that I can play around! I’m a very playful person but I make a lot of serious music. Even though I know that I can do what I want, sometimes I forget it. The most fun part was when I realised, I could do whatever I want with it! We sometimes keep these strange things in our heads – fear, or rigid structural expectations of the world, or whatever. What fascinates me is how something so beautiful can be used for so much evil at times. But it is not just subjective, and I try to understand why things are the way they are from a more objective view. Most of my research comes from talking to people who are educated in religious history. I have read a lot of religious history books, things that have been written by people who’ve dedicated their lives to understand this. So, where do you go to do your reading and what have you been reading? I think we are beautiful just the way we are. Perfection is subjective and not a necessity for beauty. I find our obsession with perfection confusing. It is a very interesting topic to dive into. I am eager to understand when this change happened and why it happened. I’ve read so much about the fascinating history of religion. That is very different to how some religions present their gods and ideology today. And you mentioned the fact that some of the Greek Gods were flawed. We lost that somewhere along the way.Ībsolutely. ![]() So, in a way that is more progressive even. In Greek mythology, for example, there was no such thing as homophobia. Personally, I resonate much more with the way faith was lived back then. I decided to let myself be inspired by the Greek Gods because I love the way we used faith a long, long time ago compared to the way it’s being used now. It’s easy to be inspired by this dance between people and their Gods, people and each other, love and lust, evil and good, women and man. Greek Mythology is a big and complicated, but also inspiring topic. All the other songs came naturally after that. When I fell asleep after I’d written and recorded Exist For Love, I knew the title for the album. That’s when I knew what the album was going to be called. It began when I wrote Exist For Love in January 2020. You’ve said that it’s about shame, desire, and morality, all seen through the narrative prism of Greek mythology – what was it that sparked the inspiration for this theme and this album in your mind? The Gods We Can Touch is a very intriguing title.
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