Going on to discuss her decision to start using cannabis, she explained to her fans how the drug was a huge help in her creative process. She said it “gave me a deeper understanding of sensory pleasure, and allowed me to start to see my world as a possible work of art.
Explaining how it aided in her ability to see things differently, she said, “I’d go on long walks around the neighbourhood, and began to mythologise the stuff around me (big empty floodlit rugby fields/bus rides/dark/streets/boredom/isolation) into the motifs that would become Pure Heroine.”
The singer’s lengthy email also included praise for Joel Little - from Goodnight Nurse - who worked as a producer on the chart-topping album. Lorde shared a 25-page transcript of a phone conversation between the pair as they spoke about the inspiration of the album.
One part of the transcript reveals what the Ribs singer felt when she decided she wanted to pursue life as a singer-songwriter, “To be having that realisation, like, holy sh**, this is what I want to do with my life. It was a very strong feeling. Like falling in love,” she said.
The Auckland-born artist continued to praise Little, noting he treated her “like we were peers, in the most sensitive and age-appropriate way”.
In true Lorde fashion, she signed off the email inspirationally, encouraging fans to chase their own dreams.
“Pure Heroine exists because I had the tiniest inkling of what I’ve now come to see as one of my guiding principles: that each of us have a handful of songs inside us that are ours, and only ours, to sing,” the singer wrote.
“Your specific interests and upbringing and physiology and experiences exist only in you; you are sitting on a gold mine that no one can rob. Whatever that means to you, whatever that statement you were born to make is, I invite you to take a big breath and make it.”
