
“I sent a letter to a list of women that I thought would be really good contenders,” she said. Nearly everyone she invited would appear on the song. “Pain has certainly informed a lot of my songs,” Lennox said. “But there is also soothing and solace and identification and expungement. Life is deeply ironic, but it has this sweet naďveté and innocence at the same time.
“I think we’re all wounded. And some of us end up throwing ourselves off buildings, and some of us manage to stay the course.”
-JON PARELES (NYT)