KortneyKaty Perry was on Apple’s New Music with Zane Lowe and talked about writing some of “Daisies” while clinically depressed, how it became a nugget of inspiration for her, her upcoming album and more.
Perry added, “I wrote some of it while I was clinically depressed and trying to find the light at the end of the tunnel. And when I’m writing songs like ‘Firework’ or ‘Roar,’ it’s not because I’m feeling hunky dory. It’s literally because I am having really dark thoughts and trying to come out of it. And my soul sends a message to my intellect, to my head. It says, ‘You’re going to get through it. You’ve gotten through it before. And here’s a nugget of inspiration, how you’re going to do it.’ And it becomes a song and ‘Daisies’ was just a nugget of inspiration for me to go, look, I don’t need to change.”
[…] “My whole life is about to change and I’m sure I will have a whole new access to different emotions I never had, and will be able to write from, so I’m going to write a whole ‘nother record probably when that happens.” As someone who has owned a summer or two, Perry said she knows that the hot weather months are when people want to dance and have fresh pop tunes, something uplifting and inspirational. “And I like being associated with those,” she said. “It comes from a dark place, but we’re all going through this same weird tunnel and we’re starting to see light at the end of it, but we don’t know how many tunnels there’s going to be this year. So I have this music. It’s done. Yes. All is good.”
