It was the day after my very first Award show, and I remember being completely overwhelmed. I walked into the studio with my producers, Paul and Jason, and they asked “What’s going on in your world? How has it been?”, it was the first time we had written since “How Can It Be.” I was feeling overwhelmed that much had happened the night before. How do I come back down to normal? How do I come back down to reality?

This brought up the issue of identity and trying to figure out how to exist when I feel like so many things were pulling me in so many different directions. We pretty quickly finished the writing and demo recording that day.

Over the course of two years of touring, I would sing “You Say” every night. I remember starting to hear fans sing along to a song that had never been heard before. When it came time to make the record, it was a really fun process to have the challenge presented with something that I felt like I’d been living with. I felt like I got to a place of expressing this song exactly how I wanted to sing it.