[Music] wasn't the road always going to end up here at some point yeah it definitely was it feels like it feels like I was just as cliche as it sometimes sounds just growing up and finding myself yeah I was well I'm gonna make what I listen to and this is exciting to me and I can do this
and you did and you built a wonderful audience around it thank you but then it's like what are you really saying and I when I listen to this album Noah I'm like oh and I bang on about this all the time oh the inner voice is doing the talking now hearing you say that and somebody I also just respect you and
your point of view on music and um you and I have had conversations in the past but to hear you say that and someone I respect so much like actually does mean so much to me because there is so much inner voice of myself in there but also a lot of like inner child of me in there that's been healed
it's very kind to the parts of you that needed healing yeah and we can be tough on ourselves in that space we can as human beings we don't we don't cut ourselves a lot of slack with that yeah we expect ourselves to have the answers all the time yeah and I think also like with finding with growing up and finding
my sound I think when I wrote July I surprised myself and and that opened up a whole new world to me where I gained confidence in myself again and I believe that I could write a song and I just it wasn't about what happened after I wrote the song it was just in that moment writing the
songs and getting my feelings out and there's just so much when I listen back to the album so much of me that you actually hear in it like not just in the lyrics but actually in the music and that's a first for me is to it's my first time making an album so sitting in the studio with Mike crossy song by song instrument by
instrument building out every single song like my entire soul is in this record having a conversation with someone at a moment when is so much wrapped up in this win they find enough confidence to approach somebody who's then going to reward that self-confidence by saying yes you are that
someone like Mike going you are that I would love to make this with you and I was such a fan of Mike before getting in the room with him yeah so I had admired years of his work um I mean Arctic Monkeys Ben Howard Jake Bugg are some of my biggest influences oh by the way all three of those artists
if we just need to put that in context for people are snow leopards yeah Arctic Monkeys are like all right is it time to come out from the cave now and make sure no one's gonna know about it Ben Harper puts himself on the coast and Devon and just he's his only company is Mike crossy and the wind
Jake Bugg doesn't move around openly so you're talking about someone who understands my point being that understands the privilege of privacy when it comes to finding who you truly are and that's not something that you've probably been afforded a lot in your life so it must have been lucky and
lovely just to be able to go no one's around and I really needed that at the time yeah that's where like I get emotional because in a way just this album saved my life so much oh man enough opening song dude I had to I had to learn it I probably messed it up but it's so beautiful my boy Steve helped me but
it's like it's like no oh my God I love that you learned this song so beautiful and then it's just like and then it just drops into this little C variation and it's like ah and know what's the opening line when I turned 20 I was overcome by the thought that I might not turn 21.
that's the opening line on the album yeah you can't ask for more than that from people thank you you can't ask for more bravery than that I mean most people leave that to the end they work up to that you came out and you you I was flawed when I heard that I was like you really found a way
to listen to yourself man for real thank you it's crazy thank you thanks man um yeah this this album came about at a time where I had a lot of change in my life um in the end of December of 2020 is when I decided to um try and kick my addiction to Downers prescription pills painkillers um Xanax that was kind of
my drug of choice and I was completely wrapped inside of that drug um and when I had just lost all hope and all faith and all um like what felt like strength to like keep going is when I just broke down and asked for help where for so long I had been denying denying denying and pushing
away where I finally just said I cannot lie to you anymore I called my therapist I called my psychiatrist and I think there was a lot of confusion that a lot of things clicked for them where a lot of stories hadn't made sense in the past you know a lot of things were clicking and I got the help that I needed and I
also that I deserve and that every person with addiction or mental health deserves and then around that time um I met a new manager um he's a huge component and me and my happiness today genuinely like and and I don't you don't get to say that a lot like I genuinely mean that I feel like
for the first time in my career I'm really being thought after and looked after and my well-being and who I am who I am like personally and not as the artist not as a business yeah I'm not a business and you came out of a business environment where there's a lot of decisions a lot of money and a lot of
activity at all times and so I guess in some respects for you you were searching for that sense of protection and that sense of like real connection with just one person who I can just I just want one person who understands what I want to achieve here and it's not just wrapped up in this big
circus for all the for all the Triumph and the challenge that comes with that yeah and I think that's why for the first time everything came together like an actual plan you know like I had never really had an actual plan like if we're talking like the logistics behind making an album there was no planning
before like what we're doing in six months from now or what I'm doing after I write that or do the production with Mike and with my music videos and how much thought I've put into them and my album artwork because I had that picture in my head for so long until it became a reality and something I could look at
and so for me it's all just so surreal that it that it's real because you know I know that I for sure was in here with Labyrinth when we put out make me cry that was forever ago and I still haven't put out an album I think before I was still searching for that one producer and and
um Labyrinth with was one of those producers one of those writers where I just clicked and I felt like I could create um but it was Finding Mike or fighting PJ Harding when we started riding with each other where it all came so fluid and it and it and it wasn't like a drag of a process and I didn't feel so
exhausted after because it was coming naturally yeah and also you know before whenever I was dealing with my addiction I was so exhausted all the time I didn't have the energy to create I didn't have the energy to put truth or I was always writing I think that's one thing that's
always say the same with me is how truthful I've been and honest I've been about what's going on inside and my mental health and um I mean with my fans I'm really straight up about my mental health and and growing up how that's been hard for me in a public eye but yeah I mean I don't know I got to
put a lot of it into my music and I've always been really truthful with that and meeting thing meeting people that brought that out of me I think also is whenever sorry I started feeling so naturally to write these songs I felt when my prayers Play on This Record like every state that you've taken in
your life through the good and the bad had led to this point and it was just flowing purely yeah and you don't often get a chance to experience that when it's in front of you thank you and that's kind of why I wrote it named the whole record the hardest part because there it was kind
of just all of it yeah the hardest part of all of it my whole life I feel like I've I've written about my whole life in this little album yeah whether you may not like think that really I feel like I've gotten a lot of my whole life into this album it's incredibly an unflinchingly courageous in terms of the
personal nature of it even the idea of just letting go of people and um moving on with your life as hard as that is and you really like you know you've summed it up beautifully like a song like ready to go is just the idea of it being okay it's okay and that is like not often discussed yeah and I think I had to
learn that not only in my relationship like but also with losing my grandma and having that song Loretta's song on the record I had to be okay with her going and I had to and I wasn't and I wasn't for a really long time um and I also was really angry at myself for not emotionally being there for her
and for my mother my mom's adopted she has no family outside of us she doesn't have any siblings she doesn't she doesn't know her family out so it was she we're all she's got her mom's all she's got and so losing her mom I I always knew kind of to prepare for that and to prepare to be
there for my mom and I wasn't and that was the one time that I and and I now I've forgiven myself and I've moved on I've created this music and I've moved on and I've forgiven myself I can really genuinely say that even talking and being open about that moment and that guilt has let me let go of it but
during my grandma's funeral and you know the day I got the phone call that she had passed I couldn't be there emotionally because I was already too far gone um and you know if I had if I could take one thing back like I think if I could choose one thing in my entire life back it would be that
my grandma she didn't get to see us the last six months of her life because of the virus and where she lived had shut down no one could get in no one could get out so I think also I I really was hard on myself about like picking up the phone and not using my phone more and calling more when I was just selfishly
masking all of my pain and that made me just forget to pick up my phone and use it no how important was your faith in helping you come to the realization that you needed help and that you wanted to change the course of your life I think really important and I think also you know I write about it in
Loretta's song um faith our faith as a family really I feel like was kept by my grandmother that she kind of kept that peace and that faith and that hope in our family um she was the closest person to an angel I have ever I've ever met and I don't just say that lightly because
she's my grandma like I truly mean it I truly mean that she would sleep in her makeup because in case she passed and met Jesus she would want to look beautiful like do her hair like powder her face she was like if I if I go tonight I want to meet Jesus so like you know that you know I I do have faith and
I also think the faith of I pray to God that I do see my family again and my friends that I've lost because it's not just my grandma that I've missed a phone call or two from yeah and I would really you know I do have faith for that but I think you know to answer your question I'm not sure I had much faith
I didn't have any at all during that time um and it wasn't until I started seeing Faith till I was a few months into the process actually and how did that feel when it presented itself to you again if you can find the words uh strange like undeserving uncomfortable almost um I almost tried denying it a few times
and I almost tried pushing it away um but now it's a feeling that I feel like I haven't felt since childhood um so it's really peaceful this album is something I'm telling everybody I I don't I I normally ask people to listen you know telling you you have to listen to this record it's
you what you and your small team of collaborators have pulled together Heroes in a special and uh doesn't come along very often um what was it like writing and recording it as an overarching experience you talk you've mentioned this this album in some really amazing context in terms of
helping you find forgiveness for yourself helping you to bring your inner voice out so you weren't letting all those outside voices distract you and tell you to do shitty things self-distraction as self-destruction right and so recording these songs and being in this place of privacy that we've established
can you try and describe that you know what I wrote and recorded the songs at separate times um because of coved you know we weren't really well PJ who is kind of my main collaborator I don't really before that I didn't really have main people that I worked with and PJ and I found a really beautiful friendship and
a really beautiful Bond through our love to just make music and that's where we made our EP our side project and you know all of this music um and I had written songs like unfinished like God back when I was 15 or 16. yeah with Dan Wilson and Elsie Juber um but like sitting on them waiting
sitting waiting and waiting for the right moment because I knew that that song was special I knew the music was special some of the songs were there some of the songs had just been written I burned La down got written kind of in the process after I had met Mike and that was just like oh my God this has to
be on the record um but getting in the room and actually recording them in the studio I won't stop recording unless like Mike is like no I have to go take my kids put them to bed like get out like or I will be like okay one more pass one more pass one more pass a lot of the record is live
um just like full takes of each song all those lead vocals a lot of them are just live full takes um so a lot of it just came so naturally and again back to that peaceful feeling I feel like I was in this my own Serenity of music with Mike and it was just us and I and I really needed
a 10 I needed to put my attention and focus towards something good and and I got to do that and I got to just create and I got to just have fun and I got to work with Incredible musicians like Chris Bond who's an incredible drummer who's worked on a lot of the Ben Howard records musicians do enough playing to
know okay somebody is is has found uh something to say here and our job is to surround that lovingly and give it space because there's space yeah I feel like musically too you're right there is space and when there is sound it's complementing lyrics to me that there's nothing that's not purposeful on this record
um and that's something Mike taught me because if I was if I was like in the chair actually like because I'll I'm like I'm like I can produce but not physically like I need to learn how to do it on production is just it's just it's just being able to to um you know visualize to have a vision and be able
to execute you can have people help you do that well I want to learn how to like actually use the tools the tools because I am so specific and I am such I can be such a micromanager right whenever it comes to like Glam or music or videos or editing or anything I'm so like hyper focused on
everything um where if I love a guitar lick or a drum fill I want to use every single one and the whole the whole song will just be like the hardest part that's like yeah yeah yeah good time like the whole whole freaking song um so yeah I I kind of learned that like space and silence is actually so
important and letting letting the record just breathe is so important Mike Mike crossy is just so freaking talented I'm so lucky to have been working with them I'm I'm so blessed to now just have him in my corner and and as a friend as family to create and um again PJ is one of my favorite people
in the world I love writing songs 100 people I did and I I love writing music I love making music and I feel like I found myself as well by the way did anybody else in the room just noticed that we saw the two personalities of Noah Cyrus come out in about uh 1.3 seconds there she said he's so freaking
talented I love that guy oh my God self-edited and then just wait for the straight hottest ball no never apologize this is a sweet place to save the wood it's not a problem but it just cracked me out that you was like self in it and find a way to just like be good and then equally at the same breath be
bad the the use of the freaking is so my mom my mom will always try to slip a freaking in there instead um but yeah it just slips out you're right that totally contradicted yeah that's the both sides it is when you look back at the person that you were and you were no longer
um and just that you're the same person but you've evolved and you now have space to feel new things and to try new things what distractions do and there's lots of them they fill the space for you right they don't give you any space to acknowledge or face things down and just like we got you we'll do all that for
you just keep on walking and let your heart beat and answer the questions the best way you can and just get through it really is what it becomes at that point what did what did you start doing with that space apart from the music and whatever like how did your mind change and what you begin to focus on and what
became important to you my craft for sure like I know you said other than the music but that I I wasn't focused I was but it wasn't my full attention um my mental health I really needed to take seriously like doing therapy and physical health and you have a process I do and what's in the process can I ask
because I'm really fascinated because I've developed my own one and I'm always looking for new inspiration like do you is it yoga for you is it is it straight out exercise for you how's your you know what's your nutrition situation yeah for me like getting I love boxing so so boxing
kind of got helped me a lot and saved me whenever I was doing like even now I mean I love boxing I love working out so like and gloves on or Shadow gloves on I'm shattered see I'm so Shadow I love Shadow like I cannot Shadow I feel like a dork that's the point you have to like such a doors
I've got some like aggression in me I gotta get out man I mean I do not look cool when I shadow box to be absolutely clear I look like such an idiot so like I no I I tried to not do Shadow Boxing but my trainer is always like come on you got to do it to like learn it's the most important part it's good because
what it does is it allows you to focus on technique rather than power yeah so it allows you to actually like this it's about Speed and Agility whereas hitting is about hitting yeah yeah so um yeah physical and also like my dogs how many now I have two okay what kind are they
um I have a Bernese like mountain dog poodle mix so a mini bernadoodle you have a mini bernadoodle yeah I met my first burner doodle just by chance a guy sitting next to me to bows on my own having a beer which I'd really like to do and this guy came in and he was on his own having a beer and he bought this
bernardoodle with him and I was like dude you have the sickest looking dog ever he's so great and then Marshall who I found off Craigslist he during the pandemic he's a pandemic Maybe such a mama's boy they save me the process of waking up feeding them taking them out going on walks that actually
kept me alive at one point in my life because I feel like I was I knew that my dogs relied it on me I did when I felt like I had no purpose the only purpose that I did have was those dogs and so you know that's the Great Bond that you get out of animals and and so animals riding horses
um focusing on me and like doing what's good for me that's that's the difference and you know when I thought you were gonna ask me how I feel about who I was I enjoy our conversation so much and I respect the way that you answer the questions and the and your honesty I think you are inspiring in that regard
so I try to kind of get there rather than just like you know so yeah yeah there were two things I was going to ask off the back of it that's one of them maybe that's the second one the first one is are you sort of any closer to understanding what Drew you to that to that environment in the first
place what you are ultimately trying to avoid or not wanting to acknowledge by allowing those drugs to do that work to just just to distract you and just take you away definitely there's a lot of personal things that it involved that that I had to like come to terms with I've acknowledged it
and I'm definitely healing it but I think also at the time I did not want to be alive anymore I didn't and I was just waiting for one day that maybe just I maybe wouldn't wake up I don't know where it was heading um there were a lot of scary moments I just know that I was I was trying to
avoid being alive or maybe feeling the feeling of being alive because sometimes being alive is really painful oh yeah so the work is hard the work is really hard it's really hot and when you're faced with the option gotta ask yourself that tough question you know it's super hard and um it's hard too on the people that love
you eh because there's only so much you can do you know and I'm sure you looking back now you realize like you could probably see with much greater perspective that those closest to you were freaking stuff out yeah and when I go back and I look I'm freaking the out gosh I see videos on my phone
were like there's a specific interview of me online that my fans find quite funny but actually whenever I look at that video I'm like oh my God this is the worst that I ever got it was seen in the public that wasn't the worst it ever got but that was so bad and like I just wasn't
there isn't it crazy how we immediately had drawn to the eyes as well it's all in the eyes right like when you're gone it's all there yeah yep looping back to where I'm at right this second is something that if I have experienced this feeling and this life before being not easy not life's not easy for anyone
you know everybody's life is custom to them and their pain is custom and their heartache is custom and um but either it's the first time or the first time in my like a very freaking long time that I have felt this feeling in myself of just peaceful happiness um and just living day by day and going
to sleep not hoping that I won't wake up just not even knowing is enough to really rock you like whoa how far off Santa am I where is my Center how do I even get back to that and what that actually means I didn't even know who I was anymore or where or what I want or like what to go back to or what
that was I kind of like decided who I wanted to be going forward okay let's just be very specific if we can that turning point that moment when you decided I don't want to live like this anymore I want to make a change in my life and I need help to do it that's probably one of the most important questions in our
conversation today because it's something it's that that people if they're feeling low will realize is there if there is a DOT on the horizon for everybody you have to ask for help you that's that is the conversation alone life-saving the conversation I know I know that some people aren't as lucky
to get the resources that some of us may have as in psychiatrists and therapy I understand and like it pains me that not every single person has that access because I think it's extremely important but there are ways online numbers you can call hotlines conversations people in
your life if you're a younger child in school an adult in school a doctor somebody that you actually trust if you don't trust anyone in your family it find some if you trust somebody else talk to them that's okay you know it's okay to not trust people close to you if that's just how you feel how you feel is
how you feel but open up the conversation to anyone just to get those feelings moving and to get yeah somewhere just to start somewhere that sums it up beautifully just to get things moving in a different way I knew it was going to be a deep one I was so ready for this conversation because when I heard the music I was
like I think Noah is going to share some real wisdom and and it's going to be some real things to talk about here um I'm so happy to be here uh me too to be able to have kind of this is my first open conversation about wow the album and the music and um really going so to do it with you and
again I just really appreciate everything you're telling me in that album really made you feel because that was my goal is that I could touch any person that listened to it and so I really this album does really truly mean the world to me when I say that I think the fact that you'd never met
thank you I think the fact that you'd never made a debut album up until now is actually flawless I think it's like perfect because for you to make this your first real kind of body of work like this is who I am like wow all that work man this is like a classic debut album thank you imagine if you
tried to do this five years ago it would have sounded totally different it all happened the right way yeah it definitely did um you know what my mom begged me to not do music when I wanted to do it she told me to wait till I was older and I really kind of in a way not I wish
I would have listened to understand what I understand what she was meaning yeah yeah yeah um I could have I could have maybe avoided a lot do you think that what was informing that decision was because she knew you had Life to Live and it was better to wait or had she seen what your siblings had gone through
to some degree was it a combination of all of it and your dad you know you know I would love to ask her that actually I would yeah but I'm scared to say that it may have been that she knew what it was going to lead to and the road that you go down and you can go down and the things that are introduced to you
because you know what I was I was not sheltered but my mom she had a pretty good grip on me yeah yeah and I was the youngest of five um I mean Miley clearly was public and and um my mom had seen also the damaging sides of it that had been done to her or to my dad or to you know
and she wanted me to be protected from that oh man I'm powerful for her to let you go into it though yeah I mean they're they're the type of parents that would never not let us do anything like if that makes sense like I I had a scar on my arm at 15 because I broke my clavicle riding horses I'd have two
surgeries literally wanted to like never show my shoulder again because it made me so I got a tattoo at 15 my mom right there letting me get my I think it was more like want your ears pierced okay want to dye your hair you kind of had the Free Will you know it was like core things
that really mattered and who you are as a person and what you put in to this world and you know and and what I I think it was they focused on other things and yeah controlling our bodies yeah rather than how you perceive by Society yeah what are you giving back to society exactly yeah yeah yeah
you know one thing I was thinking about when we were talking here is when I put lonely out in the world and I was also doing a lot of like mental health panels the advice I gave there like still Rings true I would take my advice still but but I was not I I was like I don't know where people heard a song called Lonely
that says please someone help me I I'm slowly killing myself how did someone not look like even like is she okay like should she be at this panel speaking like is she okay because I wasn't I was taking Xanax to go to sleep and that was at the time where I would usually only take it at night time
but as the addiction grew it was daytime it was Midday it was night time it was in between then that's the state of things at all times so it just when I look back now and also we talk about how I feel like I have someone now that cares for me and looks out for me I would hope that people on my inside would see things
like this and and changes in my behavior and think a little bit further into it well because you're helping to make that change and I'll tell you why because I think time and time again we've heard artists come out and cry for help through their art it's tough for us to know what to do as
fans right absolutely so what you do is you you instantly you just you just keep it in the entertainment file yeah absolutely it's powerful entertainment It's Entertainment to me and then you realize that like of course the art has to come from somewhere truthful absolutely and that's why I put the
music out because it was 100 true and I should have been putting that music out because that was my truth there's just some of these songs are just like it's like you found calm and acknowledging pain does that make sense yes that's how that's if I could kind of describe my music I would say that's
what it is right kind of acknowledging your pain and making it beautiful and making it peaceful and calm and um every beginning ends is such a powerful record lyrically but also with just how conversational it is yeah um for real I heard you I don't know if this was live in my room in there an
interview I didn't know who was on the other side because it was just an Infamous voice and you guys were talking about uh songwriting and and he was explaining I'm not sure which artist you were talking about about how his songwritings may be a little less poetic and a little more to the point talking
to a more mature Jamie T who's a British singer-songwriter and and I met him he was a young jbt he was bouncing off the walls and I asked him I think I said to him you know like what have you learned about yourself from the day that we first met to now and he said nothing and I loved the answer because he was
like I have to I feel like I have to start again every time and every answer is different but I loved that yeah because it's like maybe that is what it is yeah like if you'd kept going being informed by the last thing we would not have this at all this album to me is is like the sound of somebody who
is acknowledging that it's okay to feel sad it's okay to be scared it's okay to have been through pain and if you don't have to run from it anymore so I wonder what the road looks like now that some of that stuff is behind you and I know you said to one day at a time but I just sort of feel
like it starts now and I know it's not to be dismissive of the thing times we've talked before but it does man I I can't really remember what you were like before you know what I think you met me right before I lost who I was you know like when I was with Labyrinth I was still a kid but
um I forgot who I was for like a really long time and um I think moving forward is also for me personally which I think you were asking that also musically but for me personally now I'm making peace with that person that went through everything in the past three four years um I had to make peace with other things
to get to where I am now and now I have to make peace with who I was back then that's important part of the process too yeah otherwise that person's always on your shoulder right but you know what I just for me I want to create music that's on my own terms and and art art that's on my own terms and
whoever's on board with it I'm I love it and I love that they love my music and I love that they love to sing but I I'm not trying to I'm not gonna conform to anything ever again I just want to be myself I just want to write music I love music I love writing songs there's really nothing more to it I'll never try
too hard to create something or do something again if I just let it be it'll be and it'll happen um and that's what I did with this album and you're right it happened at the perfect time I'm so happy this is my first album because it's everything I would have wanted it to be if you come out of
nowhere with this and we didn't know who you were I think people would just be freaking the out I think I think people are gonna freak out when they when they listen so I'm saying like really gotta listen to this you really got to draw yourself into it and listen to it and people will
one amazing realization how are you now can I ask I'm 22. you are 22 years old and you've realized now that the road ahead is yours to Charter and that you've found your sound and it will grow and evolve and change and there'll be some harder stuff softer stuff and you'll break you'll get even more
heartbreaking and you'll get even more uplifting but man to know that that is your map wow I don't think it gets better than that as a creative person thanks man right it doesn't yeah it's what a Magic realization man your family must have been so proud did you even play them things in process
or did you have a moment where you just sat down and said I need to play this music yeah I would send you know what's funny I I just I show my parents my music I guess I don't go out of my way to not send it to my siblings but I just find myself sending my mom and dad my music the most so what happens when you play
this in a more complete form to your siblings who are all you know pretty much all creative I mean they know this is in you but it must have just been so rewarding you know my siblings haven't heard the full album we're all kind of split up so I have two brothers and a sister in Nashville
um and I Miley and I I mean we see each other when we can but we've kind of been in and out of the like same places at different times kind of recently yeah um I mean she's heard some of the music but like um I don't know if I've really had them and my my like everybody Noah has she heard Noah
it's so funny that you call it no because it is called Noah but I always call it stand still oh yeah no no yeah but it's yeah no she hasn't heard Noah um and I actually want to start calling the song Noah by the way because like I should and I but like yeah I've I gotta get on that because it is called that
but yes I I haven't played it for her I've played my brother my side of the bed um and he was like whoa when that synth face came in and that song took forever for me to be completely happy with the whole album is brilliant but that opening song Like I said to you is like
your eye when you listen to it your eyes widen and you're like this is why art exists and so powerful moments like this I'm fascinated that you haven't and I understand sending an MP3 on text to assist with that is like it's almost too much to ask it's almost like I want to play it for them I don't know
something about me like I'm so embarrassed sometimes with my work like and and like shameful that I almost feel like I don't know I I yeah you don't have an answer for this I don't have an answer for it I really haven't even thought about it I just I don't even think I've even really thought about it ever is it is it
bizarre that I haven't sent the album no that's not the word it's it's it's curious because because um it's not even about like hey I made this doesn't it sound good do we think I'm being secretly secretive no I think I'm gonna ask me what I really think I don't know we need to crack the code
yeah well I like I said from my perspective it's not like hey I made this it sounds great what do you think it's more like hey this is kind of who I was and who I've become and it says a lot of things I haven't been able to say to you it's all wrapped up in here I wanted to say it I
want you to hear it maybe there's some fear in that maybe there definitely is um there definitely could be I feel like the fact that I really can't even find an answer is kind of strange right I just haven't even really thought about it I I played them music I played them certain songs but I don't know
when my dad heard stand still yeah um or no uh um when my dad heard it he was pretty floored and he did exactly what you did and he picked up the guitar and he learned it um there is something really special about the like twiddle in the guitar chords and and that whole lower register verse is just
so deep and powerful and coming from my actual soul I know I didn't know I could sing that deep well like I did I knew I did harmonies and stuff that deep but I didn't know that I would like it enough as like a lead vocal well it's not expected of a young kid who's finding their feet in the music business no one's going to
expect like hey have you heard Noah Cyrus's first single and you come out and you're like you know they want you to kind of like you know yeah Mike and I just kept lowering it and lowering it and lowering it after I wrote it and I was just like I found my mic that I love I love u67 it's like that's my mind take
note uh yeah like I've I've I love using that mic it records beautifully it catches like the really deep parts of my voice um and so yeah whenever I started singing stand still I was just like this is so powerful even whenever you know for me it's like I don't really feel like I
have to show off not anymore I don't feel like I have to belt or do anything extra or add any bells or whistles to my I it just is what it is but now you must just reach for this or reach into a place and pick it up and just be able to go my dogs are chill this is what I do everyone's given me the space to do it
and I can just I can just find what I need to say and it's gonna be okay and when I say it it's gonna be okay and the music is going to come out people are going to love it and those aren't I'm okay if they don't and that's your life now man what a joy it's unreal you don't have to you don't have
to show up because someone said 10 a.m in the studio for a session I just said I don't think I'm ever ever gonna do that again you never have to do that again I don't think I'll ever do that again it's like you are now Noah Cyrus this is what you do awesome can you imagine the albums we're
gonna get the songs ended the first album and I was already like okay Mike next week let's get in for the second album no stop I'm not I'm I'm really in such a creative space and I'm making some amazing music and um and I and I feel that for the first time it's it's very rewarding to feel that