"The thing is, this series is crazy. All we wanted to do was create an album that matched up to it. I really think we got close to that here. There's so much insight and drama within these songs and they work in and out of context of the show and trust me, that was really hard to achieve. Especially considering that the plot, objective and perspective of the series channels an inner David Copperfield. The story of Consequences is one that surrounds around a dystopia that has no set location. It just seems to follow [the main character] around no matter where she goes. A mobile-dystopia is what I'll call it. She suffers from the consequences not of her actions but her her actions themselves are but a consequence of her sinister fate. She spends her days cynical and yet reaches out for help. She blames the stars for her life and the turn of all events but then turns around and scolds herself by showering her thoughts and dedicating her actions in the name of self-loathing. Maybe she's the only girl out there being abused and ultimately used as a tool for mass murder but she isn't the only one who will forever consider herself a trainwreck and serve a twisted form of self-discipline--even when she knows better. For me, that is definitely close to home. I feel that message completely and I wanted to make sure that with every song put up for consideration in this album, I sensed just that."

"The biggest challenge for this soundtrack was knowing the difference between theatrical and melodramatic. Consequences is full of theatrics of course, because it's a show and since it is in fact a Thriller, there is an obvious overload of drama that should keep watchers on the edges of their seats. But thanks to the amazing writer of this show, it has it's balance of no-chill. It goes through some of the worst things to happen to a teenage girl without once tripping itself into a ditch of cliches or the like. That's what I respect so much about this series. It's dark, disturbing, heart-wrenching but very insightful and overall intriguing. It has that natural quality that will make you watch episode 1 and wake up the next day hating the series for being so graphic but after making you think about it when you'd probably rather not, you'll come back for episode 2. And the episode after that. And the episode after that until the series is finished and you give yourself time to think about it and then end up finding yourself watching it all over again. It's an addictive series because it's such a daring series. When I was watching during the first private screening, I found myself asking more than once, "are they even going to be allowed to show this on live national television?" True albums that features music that questions society and culture and art like it's supposed to, have no problem giving off these same feelings. But some of the things the music of today really lacks just so happen to be having the presence and power that questions and expresses and for the few records that do, it's seems to be hard to find that balance between theatrical and melodramatic. My biggest goal going in was to find that balance and apply it but it seemed with the handful of artists that we wanted on the soundtrack, the balance was already there and had neutralized itself within the early stages of writing..

I know, I know, I've been talking for a minute now because I'm such a pussy for music--especially good music--but basically what I'm trying to say is: this is a damn good album featuring some damn good people based on a damn good show and I wasted 2 years underestimating the potential of it.

Growing up, I noticed that I would frequently have some crazy ass dreams so I was always really intrigued in how I should interpret the cryptic messages. These days, I interpret dreams on my downtime, my friends call me every day with a new dream for me to translate for them and then of course I have my own. I think it's why I've always been such a visualist nowadays,I'm obsessed with imagination and dreaming.. Writing this song was my way of bringing together auditory perception (which I've been equally interested in because, you know... music) and the art of just visualizing in one song.

A sand dream can mean a lot of different things. To see sand in your dream overall signifies a shift in perspective or a change in your attitude. At the same time, it could just be a way of your conscious telling you that you are wasting your time or letting time pass you by and slip away, sand is often associated with time, think "sands of time" or even an hourglass with sand inside. There's also the scenario of the sand being wet, in which it indicates that you're about to lose all balance in your life, or that you already did.

This whole song dances around the topics of over-thinking and daydreaming and giving up all control. I admittedly waste my time thinking and dreaming, but only in the name of being rational on this track. Whoever I was writing to, I wanted them to know that I was ready for a change, I was ready to give up control in my life, my mind and let them simply "conquer". But I think in a way, whoever that person is is already gone and yet I'm still calmly daydreaming about what we could've been when I ironically spent the time we actually had together, over-thinking why it would not have worked.

The song is soothing really, that feeling of something slipping away in your hands is meant to be kind of helpless but the way the instrumental just flows and settles in during the verses after suddenly pulling away in the chorus, it's kind of pleasing.