Before singing Angel together, Kelly Clarkson tells Sarah McLachlan how those ASPCA commercials used to make her cry.
Watch the interview: Sarah talks about writing Angel (her inspiration was the death of the Smashing Pumpkins’ Jonathan Melvoin), singing Blue with Joni Mitchell, and Lilith Fair. Kelly tells her how much she loves Adia. They discuss writing songs about specific breakups. Sarah said she had written a lot of songs about a relationship ending and she realized later that she had enough songs for a full album. Then she decided it was an old part of her life that she was done with so she wrote all new songs for her album. Kelly says that sometimes you put out a song that means a lot to you and then you have to sing it for the rest of your life. She says one option is changing the lyrics (as she did with Piece by Piece). Sarah talks about the connection between Building a Mystery and New Orleans.