There’s glory in a big sports car, but there’s also glory in buying a button on Etsy. It’s the difference between crafting something vs. So if I do a record with someone else it’s much more comfortable to have them come into my space than entering some bloated environment with lots of people and opinions. That’s always how I’ve made my own records - alone. That’s not my opinion of what makes it good or bad that’s just what makes me good or bad. I don’t feel like your name is often one of twelve. Sometimes when I look at production credits on a song, there are twelve writers on it. At least for me, any time I’ve been in hotbeds of creativity I got excited about something that wasn’t coming from me. That’s a weird fable of work - you don’t want to be in a crazy creative space. I just don’t think it’s good to be around too much creative energy other than your own.
TIME: You’re still based in New York, even though there’s been an exodus of artists to Los Angeles. On a tour stop in Seattle, we meet for dinner and talk about how he made this new record, mental illness in pop culture and the cost of being a creative person. (Antonoff calls it “the sound of a person going crazy alone in a room.”) For the 33-year-old singer-songwriter, who has been in bands since his high school days in New Jersey, it’s the opportunity to make music unfettered by anyone else’s creative impulses. The music is deeply personal and more than a little bonkers - pop music without guard rails.
Gone Now, his new album out now, offers answers.
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