The song “Humble Quest” I wrote early last year, so it wasn’t quite the first song that I made for this record. But it was that gut punch that I get when I just know I’m onto something and I knew I wanted it to be the title of this era. Those two words just fell into my head out of the sky when I was driving around Nashville one morning and I had no idea what they meant. I just quickly recorded it. And I went back to my house, and I just sat at the piano for an hour and tried to figure out, “What, that’s so weird.” It was intriguing, “Humble Quest” — what would that mean? And so, yeah, I got the first few lines going and I brought it to my friends [composer] Laura Veltz and [producer] Jimmy Robbins the next day.

–via StereoGum (March, 2022)