I was on tour, and I wrote it alone in a hotel room. And I remember standing in front of a mirror— think the first thing I thought of was, ‘I wish it wasn’t 4am, standing in a mirror, saying to myself, “you know you had to do it.”’ That was an actual visual from my life that ended up being the first thing I wrote, and then I expanded outward from there. And it was a song that I really thought be..