Don’t over think things and go with the flow.
It’s so important to work from other forces and not just your head. Trust that it’ll come to you. When you go away from things, you realise your mind is still processing them. Don’t rush it. With this new album, I tried to be patient with myself and give myself time. It’s important to just do something and know that it’ll lead you somewhere else.
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Make sure you love what you are doing. You won’t sustain your work if you don’t stand by it.
If you’re writing music because you think that’s where music is at right now, or that’s what other people are doing, in a few months you might say: Is that me? Did I really want to say that? You have to make sure it really is what you want to say and what you want to do because it’s going to put you in a hell of a position if you don’t like it. You have to relate to what you’re putting out.
Be polarising.
If people are confused by, or react strongly to what you are doing, then you are hitting on something important. If people find you polarising, then you’ve hit on something. So be very direct. That is going to give you more fuel to explore, to understand that there are many points of view and positions, and you can stand by yours and still hear others.
It’s always important for me to address what’s going on. I can’t shy away from it because that is what I feel and who I am.
Never be mediocre. What is the point?
Really, what is the point? Are you just trying to blend in? Mediocrity has no place in art. I don’t think blending in is a bad thing in terms of relating to people. I just think that people don’t need to resign themselves to the ordinary or mundane.
Give 500 percent. Why hold back?
Give it all. What do you have to lose? If you’re going to go for it, go for it.
Take risks.
Fail, take risks, see what happens. Why not? With this album, it was about how far I could go. I mean, some of it might get censored on radio but this is how we fucking talk to each other. This is what we really say.
It’s serious but it’s also not that serious. Make sure you remember to enjoy what you’re doing.
It’s your time and it’s your experience. The revolution needs to be joyful, right? Or else you’re gonna be miserable in it. This album wasn’t joyful, though. I was very stressed and I felt a lot of pressure. I really wanted to make sure that it was a sound that I wanted for 2026. I wanted my lyrics to resonate.
In the past 10 years, there’s been a lot more understanding and more nuanced vocabulary around body and gender politics. I wanted to make sure I was respecting that, and growing too. In the end I’m totally happy but it’s a struggle. It’s definitely a struggle.
Use humour.
How do I fit into all this? What is my purpose? I want to make people see these points of view with a little bit of humour to help it permeate a bit more. If you’re going to come at people in an brazen way, with a certain message, they’re going to close off. But if there’s some kind of humour in there, then it helps dissolve those feelings a little bit.
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Peaches’ first album in over a decade, ‘No Lube So Rude’, is out now.
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