Maya Hawke says she finds releasing her personal music difficult, describing it as an emotionally overwhelming experience.
In a recent interview, the 27-year-old actress and singer admitted that she loves writing and recording songs with friends, but the real struggle comes in sharing that work publicly.
“It’s always weird. I hate putting on music, if I’m honest,” said Hawke, who lent her voice to the recently released Audible Original The Summer Oath. people magazine.
Hawk said that promoting his music feels “like promoting his diary” as many of the songs are extremely personal.
He added, “It speaks to the self, where it feels great to write all these personal songs, and record them, and make them with your friends, but then you have to promote it, and it feels like it’s promoting your diary.”
“There’s something about it that feels very strange to me, and it’s painful and difficult,” Hawke says. “No compliment will ever make me feel better, and every insult will hurt.”
She also said that criticism has a deep impact on her, explaining that negative comments hurt more than compliments, which make her feel good.
Hawke is known for acting roles stranger thingS, take revenge, inside out 2 And Once Upon a Time in Hollywood.
He began releasing music in 2019 with the single to love a boy And stay open. Since then, she has released several albums, including Shame, Moss, chaos angeland most recently maitreya core.
Speaking about her latest album, Hawke said she felt both relieved and scared after releasing it and compared releasing an album to the world to a funeral.
“I like to look at it more as a funeral of the record rather than a release, because it was yours, it was this living thing that was movable and changeable, and now it’s this dead thing frozen in the world that people get a chance to talk about.”
“I’m so thrilled that people are hearing it. I’m so happy. And I’m so happy to let it go, but I’m terrified to do it,” Hawke said.
