Pitchfork: “Heaven’s Only Wishful” has over two million plays across YouTube and Spotify. How do you feel about that kind of response?

MorMor: I almost feel removed from it. I’ve been trying to avoid keeping up with numbers and stuff like that because, at the end of the day, I just want to be able to make music in a safe space. But it’s been interesting, because I’ll get random messages from all over the world: Nigeria, Denmark, Australia, Japan, you name it. People have been very receptive.

What do they say?

This doctor sent me an email telling me how much the song had moved him, and how it inspired him to write a song. He was just able to be creative and let that out. Those are the things that touch me the most: People saying that it’s gotten them through the day. Inspiring someone else to create is why I’d want someone to like my songs.

Someone I know messaged me yesterday saying they walked into a party and my song was playing, and I don’t even know their friends. It’s only gotten to that point now, where people around me are playing it without me knowing.

When you have an idea for a song, what’s your writing process like?

Each song is different. With “Whatever Comes to Mind,” I wanted to write something effortless—it really was whatever came to mind. I conceptualize things from titles, it’s like I have a word in a bubble and I’m attaching things to it. Chords are the next thing, and finding a melody I like. The lyrics just come with the melody. I’ll get songs to a certain point where they’re like stories in my head.