I was doing my own studio project in my apartment, and Alison’s band was staying in the apartment below. I met her in a bar down the street, and she was very, very shy. She came up and said hi and then went bright red. We didn’t speak for a while, but I heard she was a singer in a band and thought it incredible that someone so shy and socially awkward could be a singer. “So I went to see her play, and I’ve never seen someone come alive so much on stage. It really seemed like that’s where she was natural. It was almost as if where she wasn’t performing was on stage, and off stage was where she was trying to fit into some sort of social etiquette. We started talking after, and she told me she was sitting on the steps outside my apartment listening to my music and was really fascinated by it.