Hello, my name is Vanessa Carlton. This is Ari Engberg and Sky Steel, and we're at the Four Seasons ballroom with Young Hollywood, and this song is called Carousel.

I'm Oliver Chavana here at the Four Seasons ballroom where Vanessa Carlton has just taken over. Thanks for coming in.

Thank you for having us.

For all you brokenhearted lovers lost, go find another one, cuz you know time won't wait and you'll be late.

So, Rabbits on the Run, your new album. You're back. You disappeared for a bit. Very excited.

I did.

We sent out a little Vanessa search party and thankfully found you.

That's so sweet. Did you find me? I I might have missed you.

I like to take credit for most things in life so But I found you. You're welcome. I found you.

I had to kind of like start over. Yeah, it was really important for me to just kind of sit and listen and read and travel and you know, get collect my brain a bit, you know.

I'm over here with you. Here's a music beauty stands before you. Love comes back around again it's a carousel my friend.

How is this different from the first album for The Thousand Miles, The Thousand Miles songs? That was one of them songs that just stayed in you.

Yeah.

making them wave, then come in again. That's it. That's the song.

That's a good performance. I was charming.

Yeah. Thank you. Uh I honestly heard it on the radio the other day and I did not recognize myself. It was weird.

Where do you get your inspiration from when you write the song? The lyrics and stuff.

Yeah, for this project, I think a lot of books, particularly two books on this album, um, were kind of the totems if you will for this record. One is Stephen Hawking's A Brief History of Time, and the other is uh Richard Adams Watership Down. Again, an English author. Very English record.

What an emotional film that was. Amazing. Amazingly beautiful film. Poor little rabbits. Get caught in the fence. Fiver.

Yes. Oh god. I went to this little Montessori school when I was young, on a beautiful farm. And I found the rabbits to be very unfriendly, actually. Okay. I like to watch them from afar. I like hares in particular. The huge ears. Beautiful. The little ones are and I'm never been so sure that after all these years I never learned that heavenly creatures never come.

And uh you're quite you're quite pally with Stevie Nicks, aren't you? Like fairy godmother sort of thing.

She is totally my fairy godmother.

Has she given you any uh good advice?

Recently we were talking about people that wear sunglasses.

Okay. She doesn't like that. But where They think you're hiding something. If you're wearing them on stage. Oh, okay.

Yeah, I'm not a fan of people wearing them inside. It's weird. They're called sunglasses for a reason.

Yeah, a little weird. Thanks so much for coming in.

Thank you.

Thanks for your performance.

Thank you.

Lovely to meet you. Lovely to see you and lovely to see you back.

Thanks.

Don't disappear again.

Don't disappear again. I'm here for a little bit. And then then we'll see. Then we'll see.

Well, I think you should stick around.

Wasting away the days. Waiting on a new age.