The Unconscious Effect of Trauma

I metabolized a few experiences that I'd had as a younger woman that were very complex and in some ways undigestable. The sort of traumatic effect of that experience can have the effect of taking you out of the naive space. When a song comes easy, I feel like I'm surgically attached to the guitar until it's done. So I'll start singing nonsense over the top of it and it will mutate into what will end up being the song.