Interview with Teen Vogue
Grace was interviewed for Teen Vogue, reported as an "as-told-to Teen Vogue Essay". She was interviewed by associate editor Claire Dodson, who also interviewed Grace for Teen Vogue in 2018.
Grace talked – lovingly – about her childhood home, her parents and her siblings. She also talked about some of the experiences that inspired the album.
"I'm a very split person, so I can choose not to feel things. But at times it comes through where you can't ignore it anymore, like trying to make relationships with people. I've always felt really alone with my childhood, even as a child. Especially as an adult, now that I'm actually alone, it's felt very unhealed, because I feel like I never had the foundation of comfort that I needed to now be a well-adjusted adult.
I thought that I was going to get messed up, working on Child Star. Because my whole life, I've avoided thinking about it for so long. I was like, dude, if I have a panic attack and am rocking myself to sleep by thinking about things like this one night every six months, how am I going to delve into these memories and write a whole album? I am going to be so messed up. But I actually felt so much better, and I never thought that would happen.
I made this album, and I realised, more than pain, I just was dragging this little girl everywhere I went, a little girl that just felt really unheard. It was more than pain. It was locking that door and crying in silence or feeling overwhelmed and not being able to tell anyone. The idea that I need to be sad because that's the justice that I give to that little girl; I learned it's not that; it's not sadness or isolation. This is the largest act of service or justice I could ever do for her, is to open that door and just let it out. I finally felt good after that.
I think that the best service that I can do for my younger self is just to continue to try to make people as mad as possible. If people are getting mad, it's a pretty good sign because it's like, "Why is my product misbehaving? I didn't order it like that." That's satisfying to me. I'm probably just going to continue to try to do that and continue to talk about things that men don't want to talk about."