"There was a period in my life when I genuinely did not know how the morning was coming. I'm not being poetic about that — I mean it literally. There were nights where the darkness in my apartment felt more honest than any light I could have turned on. I'm saying this because I think we don't talk about those nights honestly enough. We talk about surviving in the triumphant past tense but we rarely talk about what it actually felt like in the present tense while it was happening. Survived is me doing that. The bridge is addressed directly to any woman currently in that present tense. I need you to hear — from the other side — that you're going to make it. The woman you're becoming is worth everything the road is asking for."
