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AP: The title of the album is a mouthful. How did you come up with it?

Mraz: We’re all on this ride through life. Life is basically just time traveling, and music is a great way to travel through time. And as I’m looking back, in my mid-40s, at 20 years in music, where I’ve been, what I’ve learned, how I can forgive myself for some of the things I’ve done, and then how I can be optimistic and purposeful ... I feel like I’m right in the middle of my journey.

AP: What do you need to be forgiven for?

Mraz: Breaking hearts. When you’re young, you have relationships that are filled with so much promise. And then, if they don’t work out, you’re left with this feeling of failure or shame which is not always easy to recover from. … (Also) I look back at some songs that I maybe rushed through, either for a deadline or just my idea wasn’t fully realized.

So that’s one thing we constantly have to do in life, is forgive others and forgive ourselves of our shortcomings.

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Life is basically just time traveling, and music is a great way to travel through time... woah okay Mraz

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also "Breaking hearts" has me sobbing

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You should sell the little ladies as magnets and prints

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I’ll get right on that!!

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But what is in the favorite smoothie??

Love these newsletters :)

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Peanut butter and I forget what else but it’s sooo good

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are you by any chance selling prints of those little ladies? i could use the reminder that nobody can stop me

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Not yet but I’ll get right on it!

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October 27, 2023
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thank you, JDA!

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October 24, 2023
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It's STUNNING (but I feel u... every time I enter I feel like I'm gonna be taken 2 tha underworld)

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