Contemplations on Songwriting and Existence with Claude

Claude sees her past through a looking glass. As an existentialist and a poet, she uses her experiences to write lyrics that touch on life, longing, love, and loss. She questions the paradigms that surround her existence with a guitar in her hand. “It’s easier to do it when you’re writing,” she told me laughing, remembering her days as an English major in college. From that alone, I could already tell that she carries the weight of her words with careful consideration.

This stripped-down interview gives us a glimpse of Claude’s cathartic songwriting process, letting us in on how her vulnerability became her strongest asset. In the honest revelation of her creative process, we see how her beautifully haunting voice performs the intricacies of literature through form and harmony.