00:00Two days after the song came out, we were like, oh, whoa, this doesn't usually happen.
00:04This is really crazy.
00:05Is the computer glitching?
00:06Why are so many people streaming it?
00:07It's crazy.
00:08I was over quarantine and had actually just gotten my driver's license.
00:22I was driving around my neighborhood for the first time by myself, which was this big excursion.
00:27It was super exciting.
00:28I was listening to a bunch of sad music, and I felt really moved by the music I was
00:33listening to.
00:34It was really inspiring.
00:35I drove right home, and I sat at my piano, and I wrote the first verse and chorus of
00:41Driver's License.
00:42Then the next day, I was like, oh, wow, that was actually pretty good, what I wrote yesterday.
00:46I wrote the second verse, and then I brought it to my producer and collaborator, Dan Nigro,
00:51who helped me finish it up, and we produced it together.
00:55Yeah, that's sort of Driver's License that we have today.
01:20I was absolutely not prepared for that at all.
01:23I had no expectations of getting a driver's license, but even if I did have expectations,
01:28in no way could they have ever prepared me for what actually happened.
01:31The success was pretty instantaneous, which was crazy.
01:45It was pretty quick, and it was just mind-blowing, but also sort of weird because it was in quarantine,
01:51too.
01:53I had this big hit song that people were really liking, but I had no context of that in the
01:58real world.
01:59I was just looking at my phone, you know what I mean?
02:01It was sort of a weird, isolated experience at the same time.
02:05I actually had never performed one of my own songs before in my life, on a large scale,
02:12more than just my mom and my dad.
02:23My debut album is sort of a slice of my 17-year-old heart, and I think a first heartbreak is something
02:34that teenagers feel very acutely, among other growing pains.
02:39So, yeah, I just sort of wanted to capture that teenage experience as best I could.
02:45Obviously, Driver's License was this huge success, and there's obviously a little bit
02:51of pressure that goes along with following that up, but at the end of the day, I really
02:55just love songwriting.
02:57It's my favorite thing in the world to do, and I would do it regardless of whether or
03:02not people were listening.
03:03So, the fact that people are going to listen is just sort of icing on the cake for me.
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