I've had enough time in the industry now, on my own, to understand who I want to be, what I want to do, and what songs I want to write. And I feel like How Did I Get Here? as a whole is a really good advert for how I'm feeling individually, professionally, personally, everything.

I think I had to earn that confidence to be able to lean back into some of the pop sensibility that I might've leaned away from on the previous two records, Walls and Faith in the Future. Because for a long time it was more about me proving a point and showing who I was as an artist, which I'd like to think I've done.

This record is definitely the longest I've ever worked on. It's a really funny feeling, it's really nice to have songs that are just yours, before you give them out to the world. It's a really, really nice feeling. But then that gets to a level, and then you're just so excited for these songs to see the light of day now. In the music industry, and certainly in pop, two years is a huge amount of time.

Now, I just feel comfortable enough to make the right choices for myself. Confident in who I am, and proud of what this record represents.