In conversation with .. 5!

“It’s cool to release
something that people
understand… it totally
cured a big portion of
my depression.”
Do you have a favourite?
By Sally Rooney? I like Conversations With
Friends more than Normal People, I think.
I just related to it more. I mean, Normal
People is beautiful but Conversations With
Friends was a bit more concise and I felt more
connected to it.
You seem to be a fan of writing, not just as a
songwriter. Would you see yourself venturing
that way?
Phoebe: I’d love to! I actually just got
a Masterclass, the Margaret Atwood
masterclass. I’m going to try it out soon and
maybe it will give me some homework.
Awesome!
So, yeah, maybe in quarantine I’ll decide to be
a writer.
You already have a long list of collaborators,
including a band with Conor Oberst, which
is quite impressive. Are there other people
that you’d like to work with?
Totally. I mean, everybody whose music I love,
you know. Grouper - it would be cool to make
like an instrumental record. I don’t know...
Everyone from Grouper to like, Billie Eilish,
I think she’s sick. So, yeah, just everybody
whose music I love, it’d be fun to collaborate
with.
I always ask musicians what their future
plans are... But that’s kind of tricky now, isn’t
it?
[laughs] Totally. I don’t know what my plans
are. I guess it’s just maybe making some more
stuff, you know? Make more recordings. Try to
read more - stuff that I can’t do on tour.
70