Do you ever think about that when you're writing, that some-- that someone somewhere is going to need this, or is it purely for you?"

Lily, that's a beautiful question.

Thank you so much.

And thank you for all of the other questions, everyone.

Um, but that's really beautiful to hear and very moving.

Yeah, I, particularly with Hope handwritten, I really did feel like someone el-someone else needs to hear this.

And I think I, I had a big crisis of ambition, I would say, when I was making Hope handwritten, 'cause I've always been a very, very ambitious person.

I find anything positive, I instantly dismiss, whereas anything negative, I, like, hold on to [laughs].

Tell me where you were and the head space that you were in when you wrote this song.

I actually really vividly remember writing this song.

I was at, um, my friend Anup's house in Eagle Rock, Los, Los Angeles, and I, I worked on a lot of songs on Hope Unwritten with him.

And we had come together on this, this sunny d- sunny day, and we were trying to make something, and it just wasn't going very well.

And a few hours passed, and it was just one of those days where I felt really stuck and couldn't come up with anything.

So I started playing these chords, fili- fiddling around on the guitar and found the chords for A Story to Tell.

And I, I think I had the phrase already, and I was actually gonna call the album A Story to Tell, and I was like, "Okay, why not try to write a kind of title track for it?" Of course, I ended up changing the name of the album, but that was kind of the, the jumping-off point.

And diaries are really important for that reason, right?

Was that something that you felt that being a big feeler wasn't allowed? A little bit.

I think, I don't know, now I've spent a lot of time in America, I do feel like there is a slightly different vibe in terms of like how... much you're supposed to at least like show your feelings I think yeah I also my my heritage is I grew up um with like my dad is from a Jamaican background and I think that's similarly to English culture obviously like probably for colonial reasons is a very much like I don't know I feel like Jamaicans are also big feelers but there is often like a a kind of attitude of like I don't know, like a kind of reluctance to be too open about certain things or like to talk too much about things from the past and stuff.

Or at least in my family, I think that's been a bit of a thing.

And yeah, I just think like, I also think it's generational and I think people more like younger people in our generation, I think are liberating ourselves slightly from this idea that like, you have to just keep calm and carry on.

But I do think it's such an English tradition.

I do see how that can be positive and like, you know, it's about, it's a message of resilience, but it's also like, I think it can be quite insidious as well.

And yeah, I just think like, The best things that have happened in my life have happened because I've been open and allowed myself to be vulnerable and allowed myself to feel and express myself.

And now other things are coming, other opportunities are coming along as well.