"It's after dark that I feel most inspired, I'm a nocturnal creature. I'll write poetry or streams of..." — Arlo Parks

Super Sad Generation' was essentially about the struggles that you go through when you're growing up in the world and trying to figure out what kind of person you want to be.

I was very in my own head as a kid. But I liked it there! I was just writing poetry, writing stories, writing plays. I think I was quite strange. But I was happy.

At the beginning I wasn't really rapping. I had poetry, so it was a spoken word vibe. Then I found beats that you could sing over - lo-fi, ambient stuff. So I was singing over them and trying to put things into practice.

Minneapolis has always been a mythical place for me because my mom is a massive Prince fan.