music<\/a> does a much better job explaining how much my life has changed and how much I think I\u2019ve become myself,\u201d Gray says. \u201cI think the album is more me than any I\u2019ve ever made before.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\tBelow, Gray speaks with THR<\/em> about life on the road, subverting the pressure of fans\u2019 reaction to his music and finding his complete self recording his new music. <\/p>\n\n\tHow is the tour going?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\tAmazing. It\u2019s truly a dream come true. It\u2019s been incredible to be able to sing the songs off of Wishbone<\/em>. I think the album means everything to me, so to actually see people singing songs back and seeing the way that these shows turned out, it\u2019s very surreal. I\u2019m three weeks in and kind of pinching myself, and it\u2019s basically also almost over. It just kind of flew by.<\/p>\n\n\tYou said you had some coffee and you played cards. What does your routine look like on tour?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\tI\u2019ve been touring now since I was a teenager, so it has been a while. There\u2019s a certain part of me that\u2019s weirdly more comfortable on tour than when I\u2019m back home. I think that there\u2019s obviously certain parts of touring that are quite unconventional, but I do find it to be very oddly comfortable sometimes, and I really do enjoy some of the routine of it. You\u2019re always doing the same thing, but in a different location. No matter where I am, whether I\u2019m in Reno, Nevada or in Bogota, Colombia, I\u2019ll wake up, have a coffee, play cards and write songs. I think the routine of that is what helps me feel a bit more normal about it all.<\/p>\n
\n\tHow does Wishbone<\/em> represent where you\u2019re at now?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\tIt\u2019s hard to encapsulate it into words. I think that the music does a much better job explaining how much my life has changed and how much I think I\u2019ve become myself. I think the album is more me than any I\u2019ve ever made before. I think that was mostly a result of growing up a bit. I think when you\u2019re in your early adulthood, each year you\u2019re truly a completely, immeasurably different person. You look back at every year before and you\u2019re like, \u201cOh God, who the hell is that?\u201d But I think with this album, this was the culmination of all of those transformations.<\/p>\n
\n\tWhat do those transformations look like? <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\tI looked back and I [realized] there\u2019s bits and pieces of me from each one of those versions of myself that I actually truly love about that person, and I feel is just intrinsically who I am. Wishbone<\/em> is a bit of everything that I\u2019ve ever been. Everything that I\u2019ve ever gone through; every person who I\u2019ve ever had my heart broken by; every friend that I\u2019ve lost; every friend that I\u2019ve gained. It\u2019s just everything that all kind of came together into a version of myself that I think\u2026 I do feel \u2013 hopefully, fingers crossed \u2013 a bit more solidified. I\u2019d like to say the jello has gelatinized. I think I\u2019ve been quite me for the past few years, and that\u2019s the only reason why the album is what it is. I just feel extremely myself. My challenge with the album was I can do anything I want. I can stay anything I want, truly, as long as it\u2019s just true to what I am and who I am as a person. Ultimately, I do think the album is that.<\/p>\n\n\tWhen you\u2019re writing music, are you using it as an outlet to work through things? Or are you going into writing about things you\u2019ve already worked through?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\tI think it\u2019s cyclical for a lot of people and a lot of writers. Sometimes you have times where you\u2019re very retroactively looking back at something, and I\u2019ve definitely had phases like that. But Wishbone<\/em> was the result of active participation in my life and was the result of truly play-by-play, emotion-by-emotion writing [of] everything that I had to say. The album was never supposed to exist in the first place. It was truly just that I had so much shit to get off my chest, and I was furiously writing. I was writing one, two or three songs a day. I\u2019m insane. I just had to. I\u2019ve always written music, since I was 10 or 11, I\u2019ve always written. It\u2019s always been how I journal, I guess. But there are definitely phases where you write more than others, and boy, I was writing a storm with Wishbone<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\tDo you feel the confidence that you had in this album has made the promotion and the rollout a little bit different than albums in the past?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\tI would say so because I feel like when you\u2019re proud of something, the promotion feels really worth it. Not to rag on what promotion is, but I can\u2019t say I love promoting. (Laughs<\/em>). I do think that with Wishbone<\/em>, I was so proud of it. I would\u2019ve done anything to have people just listen. I really felt like I had something worth showing to the world, and it\u2019s changed everything about my life. It\u2019s changed everything about what it felt like to go and perform these songs in front of people who I know don\u2019t know who I am and don\u2019t care if I live or die. I was like, \u201cyou know what? Actually, I want you to hear this.\u201d I felt very proud of it. It\u2019s like when you\u2019re a kid and you draw something that you think is cool and you want to show your siblings, I kind of felt that way about this album. I was like, \u201cguys, wait, I think I have something to show you.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\tHave you thought a lot about what comes next, or is it something you\u2019re not trying to think about right now?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\tI\u2019ve totally thought about it for sure. I think to me, this album, Wishbone<\/em> was a great of reminder to me of what I love about making music. I wrote the album without thinking about the pressure of what people would think or how it may be received. It felt really gratifying to me once it came out. My goal is to just not be influenced by people\u2019s reaction to Wishbone<\/em> at all. Whether it\u2019s the great things that people have to say about it or the negative things. All I want to do is just keep going down that path because it felt so right, and it felt so me, not to quote High School Musical<\/em> right now.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.hollywoodreporter.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cThere\u2019s a certain part of me that\u2019s weirdly more comfortable on tour than when I\u2019m back home,\u201d singer Conan Gray says. The 26-year-old is in a hotel room in Reno, Nevada when he Zooms with The Hollywood Reporter, weeks into his latest tour, The Wishbone Pajama Show. 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