Ahead of the release of her debut solo album Petals For Armor on May 8, Paramore vocalist Hayley Williams chatted with Zane Lowe on Apple Music about her inspirations behind the record, depression, rage, grief, and more. Having previously revealed to BBC Radio 1 that the LP title stems from her own personal “mantra to try and stay soft in a really, really hard world and feel pain, and let all of it come to you and try and put out something that can redeem it all – even if it’s ugly at first”, Hayley elaborates on that inspiration with Zane, explaining how Petals For Armor comes from “the idea that being vulnerable is a shield”. “Because how else can you be a human that’s inevitably gonna fuck up and trip in front of the world a million times?&#...
