I first interviewed Aimee Mann ten years ago in support of her eighth solo album, Charmer, and I was really struck by the care and thought she put into her answers. For this chat, I wanted to go deep into the process behind the creation of her latest record, Queens of the Summer Hotel, which was originally intended as a soundtrack to a stage adaptation of author Susanna Kaysen's acclaimed memoir Girl, Interrupted. Interview is live on The Line of Best Fit today!
Comfort and Fear: In conversation with Aimee Mann
One of the great chroniclers of the warts-and-all human condition, Aimee Mann explains how her experiences with mental illness and Susanna Kaysen’s memoir Girl, Interrupted inspired her latest album Queens of the Summer Hotel.
Alan Pedder
"I’m especially interested in the research into how a history of childhood stress, or PTSD, has a long-term impact on your nervous system and how that impacts a person physically. We are maybe a bit too used to thinking of the body and the mind as two different things, but of course the brain controls everything." – A.M.
